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

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

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Yeah…that’s the reason…

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Doctor who?

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Dr. Whom

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Dr Them

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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.”

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

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It’s strange.

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Who

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Doctor

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Doctor is gender neutral.

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

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

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

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neutral

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.

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They neutralize folks?

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I wonder how’s that. Folkxs? Fxkls?

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I’ve heard doctress used for female doctors

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Was it in the year 1910?

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And a male doctor is a doctsman

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