I mean it’s from the late 1800s. Not sure women were allowed to be doctors then. They might’ve come down with “hysteria” and sawed off the wrong leg. Cause the men were really keeping things in order.
Maybe she was a radical. Dr. Pepper, suffragette.
Technically it’s a gendered word, and a woman could be called a doctrix, similar to dominator/dominatrix.
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I’ve never considered it’s a person… To me I only associate it as the name of the drink and never thought deeper about where it came from.
Same with Mr. Pibb, and that had the gender right in the name. I just, never thought about it.
It’s Pibb Xtra now – Pibb’s finally living their best life.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone ever call it Pibb Xtra in person. Of course over the years I have heard Pibb a lot more than I used to lol, but still, Pibb Xtra? So weird.
It’s actually an acronym for the Democratic Republic of Pepper.
This just exploded my mind. I can’t believe how surprising this statement is because I’m exactly the same.
It was probably added just as a marketing tactic. There were fewer rules about being able to say anything was a medicine, and the use of Dr at the time was a way to trick people into thinking it was medicine.
“Is that Jackie chan?!?!”
“No, you’re just a racist”
Once I get my PhD, I’ll change my name.
Dr, Doctor Bagel, PhD.
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That’s not how this works.
what if metroid was a girl? /s
but metroid is birb tho
What did they say?
“What if Mario was a girl? (Dr. Mario)” Just dumb because we’ve never seen or established who Pepper was, but Mario is well known.
Mario is their family name. Dr. Mario could be a third brother.
You’re literally doing what the other person did. I feel like I am Not Sure and just walked into President Camacho’s cabinet meeting.
“But it’s got what plants crave.”
I’m making a joke because his name is Mario Mario, so Dr. Mario could be a third brother besides Mario or Luigi. https://www.pockettactics.com/what-is-marios-last-name
