When my sister got her doctorate, she told her kids now they can no longer call her mama, now it's dr. mama
82 0 ReplyWhen i got mine, my nephews and nieces concatenated uncle and dr, even years later they refer to me as druncle
53 0 ReplyYeah...that's the reason....
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Doctor who?
44 0 ReplyDoctor is gender neutral.
42 0 ReplyWhat if we move in the opposite direction and go with doctrix?
And I mean for everybody. Like a gender-bending neutral.
15 0 ReplySounds like a dominant female doctor. I'm in.
26 0 Replyneutral
What makes a man turn neutral? Is it lust for money? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
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So is "folks" but that didn't stop people from neutralizing it or whatever it's called.
9 0 ReplyThey neutralize folks?
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I’ve heard doctress used for female doctors
5 0 ReplyWas it in the year 1910?
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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."
41 0 ReplyIt's strange.
14 0 ReplyWho
4 0 ReplyDoctor
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"Listen, lady—!"
"Doctor!"
"Doctor Lady!!"
– MST3K, Space Mutiny
27 0 ReplyMister Doctor.
25 0 ReplyIt's Strange
21 0 ReplyWho?
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Dr. Mr. Professor Patrick
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But then they don't use PhD's preferred pronouns to refer to PhD in the tweet 😔
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8 0 ReplyI 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.)
8 0 ReplyIt's the right kind of doctor, it checks out!
4 0 Reply@fossilesque HENRY ROLLINS NEVER NEEDED PRONOUNS
4 0 ReplyDr. Allcome.
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Well, actually the “pronoun” would be “The Doctor”. And since it applies in both contexts, it’s applicable to both. However it’s really not a pronoun as much as it’s A unique Proper-noun/noun/pronoun tri-brid.
Basically, it’s all really confusing, we should all just acknowledge this as a Quantum-noun and move on.
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