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minus-squareEch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·edit-22 months agoI mean it’s from the late 1800s. Not sure women were allowed to be doctors then. They might’ve come down with “hysteria” and sawed off the wrong leg. Cause the men were really keeping things in order.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoMaybe she was a radical. Dr. Pepper, suffragette.
minus-squareEvacuateSoul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 months agoTechnically it’s a gendered word, and a woman could be called a doctrix, similar to dominator/dominatrix. Edit: phrasing and add picture
I mean it’s from the late 1800s. Not sure women were allowed to be doctors then. They might’ve come down with “hysteria” and sawed off the wrong leg. Cause the men were really keeping things in order.
Maybe she was a radical. Dr. Pepper, suffragette.
Technically it’s a gendered word, and a woman could be called a doctrix, similar to dominator/dominatrix.
Edit: phrasing and add picture