"doctor" and "professor" is a meaningless title. Pursing a PhD isn't necessarily meaningless, unless I'm in it just for the title
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Replying to @artificialsoph
I think you might have it a bit backwards...the title designates the fact that you earned it. It's like a battle scar.
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Replying to @doctorwhy
A thousand things designate the accomplishment. A completed dissertation, the physical degree, the party I'll throw to celebrate…
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Replying to @artificialsoph @doctorwhy
I don't need to force people to call me doctor in order to have earned a degree.
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Replying to @artificialsoph @doctorwhy
since when is "please call me X" forcing anyone?
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Replying to @richarddmorey @doctorwhy
I've heard in the US things are a lot more formal. I'm Olivia to my students.
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Replying to @o_guest @doctorwhy
In the US I never called any professor by anything other than a first name
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but I believe everyone has an ironclad right to be called what they like
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truly? Equally ironclad for *grad students*, post docs, and profs asking to be called "doctor"?
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Replying to @artificialsoph @richarddmorey and
this isn't simply about getting to chose what one is called. It's very clearly hierarchical.
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yep
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