Fun story time! The suffix -tor is actually, historically, used for men, i.e, aviator, doctor, etc. There exists another suffix, -trix, that isn’t used much at all anymore, but for women. You may know of one of the only remaining uses of this suffix (that I know about) in the form of “dominatrix”. This has been your antiquated vocabulary lesson. Test on Friday, homework due on Thursday.
I have heard phallatrix used as a euphemism (bc if it’s in Latin it’s fine…)
There should be more widespread gender-neutral titles, for those fence-sitting centrists who aren’t interested in defending normative gender roles but don’t have the wherewithal to transition.
Having said that, if “Dr.” is an example, “Mr.” would become gender-neutral, with “Mrs.”/“Ms.” becoming archaisms like “Doctrix”. The other alternative is further generalising the relatively novel title Mx, which would also have the benefit of infuriating the TERFs
Honestly that’s probably the third best reason to get a doctorate I have ever heard.
The best is “I really want to spent four years researching this super specific stuff”.
The second best is “I’m interested in an academic career”.
All the others are worse.
“Freshie” “Bachelor” & my fav.
Don’t worry these thoughts are totally cis. You can just say “still cis tho :3” and then it’s clear that there’s nothing eggy going on, I do it all the time
Eh I don’t really like honorifics. I like people to just use my name.
