Funnily enough I picked Dr. Pepper as a guy because I think "Doctor hocking Miracle Tonic" and I think of late 1800s "doctor" do sleazy shit
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He just gotta have a curly moustache
You can't misgender a brand. You can't deadname a brand. You can't befriend a brand.
You wouldn't download a brand
Of course they're a guy. Otherwise it'd be Drs. Pepper. ~/s~
Docsses Pepper?
Doctoress. Didn't realize it was actually a word and feel like we should use it more because it's awesome.
It does kind of sound cool but I thought the current trend was to move away from needlessly gendered language, especially with how in English a lot of feminine nouns are intentionally made to sound like a diminutive form of the masculine version
Definitely agree with preferring non-gendered language. But it also doesn't feel like right to default to the (historically) masculine version either.
Nah. Dr. Pepper is from the 1800s. I don't think women were allowed to be doctors back then, so Dr. Pepper being male is a fair assumption.
Dr Pepper , what ever their gender, is a quack.
"I cannot operate on this soft drink, he's my son"
I have an excuse though. Doctor is closer to doutor (male doctor) than doutora (female doctor)
I'm gonna steal this excuse and apply it to German (Doktor/Doktorin)
Yeah, she's probably so done with people going "Doctor Pepper? Don't you mean nurse?".
It does not make you a bad person to correctly interpret what someone means.
When your racist uncle complains about “thugs”, it doesn’t make you a bad person to infer that he means black people.
When you see what you know to be a very old brand, it doesn’t make you a bad person to infer that “doctor”, to the brand-makers, certainly meant “male doctor”.
I have to admit the Ferguson Unrest of 2014 and the rhetoric about Michael Brown being a thug really changed my mind about Batman, for whom even his games highlight mobs ( mobiles or game artifacts that move) as thugs. And this led to Garth Ennis' observation that Batman is a billionaire aristocrat who beats up poor people
Then again Supergenius Reed Richards could never cure HIV and T'Challa / Black Panther, King of Wakanda and captain of the vibranium industry can't ever do enough to elevate non-whites in the US and in industrialized nations. I digress.
Getting back to Batman, I wonder if the white thugs Batman usually preyed on were Italians and Irish, who had to spend a century in the barrel before they were given white privilege.
I always thought of it as a machine... Like a crappy auto doc that's actually just a soda machine that's extra slow and noisy for dramatic effect, probably advertised by a snake oil salesman