{"id":7020,"date":"2010-12-09T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T06:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=7020"},"modified":"2010-12-09T23:36:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T06:36:29","slug":"dr-and-mr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/dr-and-mr\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. and Mr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Senate ridiculously tabled the vote on the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamact.com\/\">(DREAM) Act<\/a>, I contacted my Senator to ask if she would please support it.<\/p>\n<p>In filling out the form, I went to chose my &#8220;title&#8221; and found that I could chose either Dr., or, Dr. and Mrs.<\/p>\n<p>Is this because the only women who get doctoral degrees are married to other women?<\/p>\n<p>Do male doctorates never, ever consider partnering with others in doctoral degree programs?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it because the women who marry men with doctoral degrees always take their husbands&#8217; last names?<\/p>\n<p>Or it is simply so emasculating for a man to be married to a woman with a doctoral degree that it just isn&#8217;t right even to consider the rules of how that particular title would play out?<\/p>\n<p>Is Dr. another choice men get for a title, where women can either be Mrs. (&#8220;look bitches, I married a doctor!&#8221;), Miss. (&#8220;under 18&#8221;), or Ms. (&#8220;old maid&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Just wondering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7021\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/photo-e1291962486614-764x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/photo-e1291962486614-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/photo-e1291962486614.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/photo.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Senate ridiculously tabled the vote on the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minor (DREAM) Act, I contacted my Senator to ask if she would please support it. In filling out the form, I went to chose my &#8220;title&#8221; and found that I could chose either Dr., or, Dr. and Mrs. Is this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}