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[-] pastel_de_airfryer 82 points 11 months ago

When my sister got her doctorate, she told her kids now they can no longer call her mama, now it's dr. mama

[-] goodgame@feddit.uk 50 points 11 months ago

When i got mine, my nephews and nieces concatenated uncle and dr, even years later they refer to me as druncle

[-] klemptor@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago

Yeah...that's the reason....

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[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 44 points 11 months ago
[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago
[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

What if we move in the opposite direction and go with doctrix?

And I mean for everybody. Like a gender-bending neutral.

[-] Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 11 months ago

Sounds like a dominant female doctor. I'm in.

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 23 points 11 months ago

neutral

What makes a man turn neutral? Is it lust for money? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

[-] devz0r@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

So is "folks" but that didn't stop people from neutralizing it or whatever it's called.

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago
[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

I wonder how's that. Folkxs? Fxkls?

[-] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 4 points 11 months ago
[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Get the folx out of here.

I had no idea they did that to folks lol.

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[-] Currens_felis@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

I’ve heard doctress used for female doctors

[-] Aremel@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

Was it in the year 1910?

[-] DroneRights@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

And a male doctor is a doctsman

[-] SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

Y'all joke, I had a college professor on the first day of class say "if you want to call me by my first name, that's fine. My first name is Doctor."

[-] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If somebody starts with that "call me doctor" stuff, I'll insist they'll call me engineer. It's also a legally protected title.

[-] skippedtoc@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

It's strange.

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Listen, lady—!"

"Doctor!"

"Doctor Lady!!"

– MST3K, Space Mutiny

[-] ArchTemperedKoala@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago
[-] PopShark@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Dr. Mr. Professor Patrick

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

I had an art history professor that insisted on being called doctor; she said she'd put in a lot of time and spent a lot of money to get that degree, and so she wanted to get her money's worth.

She was a lot of fun.

[-] Good_Idea_Poorly_Realized@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I bet she was.

I've never meet someone who insisted on being called doctor that was anything except fun and reasonable to work with.

They love it when you let them know you also have a PhD.....

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

I was being serious. She made art history--which is normally a fairly dry subject, particularly when you're covering art before 1100CE--a really fun and engaging subject.

[-] ftbd@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago

Isn't professor a higher title though?

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

No; adjunct faculty can also rightly be called professor without having achieved a doctorate. I've had a few professors that had BAs and MFAs (esp. since I'm not sure that there are PhD programs for fine arts).

[-] ftbd@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Interesting; I've literally never heard of this (EU)

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Could just be the schools that I've gone to, could be some weird thing that the US does that no one else does (kinda like SI v. metric).

[-] ADTJ@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

It depends what country you're in

[-] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

But then they don't use PhD's preferred pronouns to refer to PhD in the tweet 😔

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

John Hurt has entered the chat.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I have a cousin who got a knighthood in the UK, but he won't let me call him 'sir' no matter how funny I think it is. (He also has a PhD.)

[-] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

the NB Dr. Who iteration is kind of weird.

[-] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 11 months ago

It's the right kind of doctor, it checks out!

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago
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