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[–] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 87 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] goodgame 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago

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

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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Hupf@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rostby@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 points 1 year ago
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[–] SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 14 points 1 year ago

It's strange.

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year 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?

[–] Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago

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

[–] devz0r@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how's that. Folkxs? Fxkls?

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get the folx out of here.

I had no idea they did that to folks lol.

I'm still not convinced we aren't being fucked with

[–] Currens_felis@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve heard doctress used for female doctors

[–] Aremel@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Was it in the year 1910?

[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

And a male doctor is a doctsman

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Listen, lady—!"

"Doctor!"

"Doctor Lady!!"

– MST3K, Space Mutiny

[–] ArchTemperedKoala@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SendMeYourTatas@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Doofenshmirtz

[–] PopShark@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Dr. Mr. Professor Patrick

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 1 year 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 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't professor a higher title though?

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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).

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[–] ADTJ 6 points 1 year ago

It depends what country you're in

[–] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

the NB Dr. Who iteration is kind of weird.

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 4 points 1 year ago

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.