2) Or many women prefer using Dr as a gender-neutral title. This I totally get, but what about women who haven't completed a Ph.D.? I am open to change my but at the moment I can't see any reason to use a title which suggest so much self-importance.
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Replying to @AcademicAngsty
I’d vote to get rid of it if we also got rid of *all* other titles, but not if the alternative is Mr and Mrs/Ms/Miss.
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Replying to @LisaDeBruine @AcademicAngsty
Removing it will affect women who have it more than it will affect men, much more IMHO. So my counter to you
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Replying to @o_guest @LisaDeBruine
Because I think the title causes more harm than it would if no longer used.
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Replying to @AcademicAngsty @LisaDeBruine
Are you a man? Getting the title has helped me so much in life.
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Replying to @o_guest @LisaDeBruine
I'm sure it's helped you. And I'm getting that, and I think that's come through clearly. I am non-binary.
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Replying to @AcademicAngsty @LisaDeBruine
So ever since I got "Dr", I have received the healthcare I was begging for on the NHS (lfe-saving stuff), I have been treated better in every situation in which people knew my title. I literally do not think I would be alive if I didn't get it because of the causal chain here.
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Replying to @o_guest @AcademicAngsty
That's great it helped you, but you don't deserve those things any more or less after you got the PhD than you did before.
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Replying to @LisaDeBruine @AcademicAngsty
Yes, it's disgusting. But to take it away from me would take my ability to access this stuff.
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Replying to @o_guest @AcademicAngsty
I think it's OK to acknowledge both the harm that happens from using the PhD title (e.g., implicitly degrading the contributions of ECRs) and the fact that removing it would disproportionately affect women and URMs.
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I'm confused? I'm not an ECR because I finished my Ph.D.?
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Replying to @o_guest @AcademicAngsty
Please don’t. You know I mean ECRs that don’t have a PhD.
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Replying to @LisaDeBruine @AcademicAngsty
OK — I am not sure I would describe it as harm (because it's a strong word), but sure: yes.
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