Dutch male academics who feel they are discriminated against by stimulating the appointment of female professors, but who also address women as "Miss" and ask them to justify themselves when tweeting or speaking in English ...pic.twitter.com/mJ68Vtv58c
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @AndrewR_Physics
I feel I'm missing something.. I was always taught to address women as miss rather than assume they're married?
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Replying to @AcousticS_IN_UK @AndrewR_Physics
Not sure how to respond to this.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @AndrewR_Physics
I can't address the Dutch/English points it's not in my frame of reference but I would call an unknown woman miss until she says call me x or actually its mrs.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @AndrewR_Physics
OK. That's fine, I got that from your original tweet.. but how should I correctly address you as an unknown female? Because I didn't realise it was problematic
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Replying to @AcousticS_IN_UK @AndrewR_Physics
I am a woman. Calling me ‘a female’ feels insulting too. I don’t think you mean to insult me, so I’m just saying it, because you seem to indicate that you want to understand. As for how to address me:
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Can call me Iris, or if you prefer title call me Dr. van Rooij. If gendered title necessary try to not distinguish based on marital status. You wouldn’t for men, right? So use Ms. (in Dutch ’mevrouw’, not ‘mejuffrouw’) But honestly, preferably don’t use it for me if not needed.
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Wait, why can't you use Ms? Why Miss?
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You are asking
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Yeah. I mean it's ridiculous to use titles at all, but defaulting to Ms is fine. But it's offensive (a lot) to call me or Iris Ms, even if an honest mistake.
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