Friday, May 30, 2014
The Doctor is out
I'll bet Maya Angelou is spinning in her grave right now over all the tributes referring to her as just plain Maya Angelou. She insisted on being called DOCTOR Angelou, thankyouverymuch.
My brother has a doctorate. In wildlife biology. One that he actually went to school for, even. Penn State and the University of Florida. It took him a lot of years. First he got his associate degree, then his bachelor's, then his master's, then his doctorate. But he never asked anybody to call him Doctor. That I know of, anyway. Maybe the white-tailed deer he spent his career researching called him Doctor. Hard tellin' - they're not talking.
I think from now on, I want to be called Dr. Rockycat. It has a nice ring to it.
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Ya gotta read this: http://mashable.com/2014/05/28/maya-angelou-jobs/
Did you know she was 6 feet tall? And had a baby at 16? And once was a prostitute, and a shake dancer?
Cool lady.
BUSY lady. Holy cow. When did she sleep?
We are impressed to death about your brother....Know so many people who have the same type of degree (and my husband would have been there if not for the brain injury). What does your brother do for a living???? (Wow!)...Ginny
My take: If you aren't actually a physician of some sort, even if you have an earned research PhD, it's a little douchey to insist on everyone calling you "doctor." According to my elder colleagues, it used to be very important in colleges (or departments) of lesser quality because not everyone had a PhD and those that did wanted to be sure that everyone knew it...but from the 1970s on, with the proliferation of PhDs, most departments and colleges have more PhDs than they know what to do with.
Ginny, my brother managed a federal wildlife refuge in Washington state for many years - he's retired now. Cool man.
and bridgett, "douchey" pretty much fits the bill, as far as I'm concerned.
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