Doctor slams Qantas for calling her ‘Miss’

mwobuddy · 2018-09-05T23:03:10+00:00

I Hold a doctorate. Everyone calls me Steve. If someone calls me doctor, I say my name is Steve. You meet the arogant asses all the time in Uni.

BaconCatBug · 2018-09-05T22:52:12+00:00

>Being called Miss: Literally Hitler

>Having your genitals mutilated just for being male: Acceptable and if you disagree you're Hitler.

2018-09-06T04:22:06+00:00

What an insufferable, pretentious cunt.

I am a doctor and always travel under Mr because what does my job have to do with sitting on a plane?

B_P_G · 2018-09-06T04:49:09+00:00

I didn't know an airplane cabin was an academic setting. Was she giving a lecture up there or something? You aren't entitled to have the whole world call you "doctor" just because you have a PhD. If you're not teaching at a university or attending a conference then nobody is going to call you 'doctor'. Not even in a professional setting. I've worked with many PhDs in my career in corporate America and the only time anyone addressed them as 'doctor' was when they were making major technical presentations - i.e. very formal settings.

Austacker · 2018-09-05T22:38:37+00:00

AN AUSTRALIAN doctor has unleashed on Twitter after a Qantas flight attendant accidentally addressed her as “Miss”, calling the incident an example of blatant “sexism”.

Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer, an Australian academic currently working in the UK, took to social media of Friday to share her gripe with the airline.

“Hey Qantas, my name is Dr O’Dwyer. My ticket says Dr O’Dwyer. Do not look at my ticket, look at me, look back at my ticket, decide it’s a typo and call me Miss O’Dwyer. I did not spend 8 years at university to be called Miss,” she wrote.

The tweet, which has so far garnered more than 1000 retweets and 8000 likes, sparked fierce debate about whether the flight attendant was wrong to refer to a woman with a PhD in Philosophy as “Miss”.

Greg_W_Allan · 2018-09-06T01:56:40+00:00

I need to create titles for clients in my work. It's easy for men - Mr. With women I always ask. I've begun to notice that younger women prefer "Miss" over the variant "Ms". It's the women in my fiftyish age group who prefer Ms.

2018-09-06T11:45:57+00:00

A Qantas spokesperson told news.com.au: “We are extremely proud of our cabin crew, who respectfully serve our customers every day and play a vital safety role”.

No apologies. Good.

divers69 · 2018-09-06T14:41:01+00:00

What an extraordinary example of poor logic.

'I am a woman, this happened to me, therefore it must have happened to me because I am a woman'

You might have expected someone with a doctorate to know better.

I guess it must happen to me because Im tall and bald.

2018-09-06T10:29:18+00:00

"Sure thing, Dr. Asshole."

thrway_1000 · 2018-09-05T22:43:09+00:00

Archive -- https://archive.is/ATcCE

IronJohnMRA · 2018-09-06T11:12:30+00:00

"I did not spend 8 years at university to be called Miss,” she wrote.

Sure, Dr. Evil.

2018-09-06T10:29:07+00:00

"Sure thing, Dr. Asshole."

ac13332 · 2018-09-11T13:35:48+00:00

I'm male and have a PhD. For some companies that I am a customer of I am on file as "Dr.", not "Mr.".

Only once (outside of work) has anybody called me "Dr." because it's on a form...

Doctor slams Qantas for calling her ‘Miss’

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Title	Doctor slams Qantas for calling her ‘Miss’
Author	Austacker
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Date	September 5, 2018 10:37 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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