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3mo ago

Implicit bias rule

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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
- He just gotta have a curly moustache
  
  He had more of a Ulysses S. Grant looking beard.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Pepper
  He wasn't actually involved with the drink.

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.

You can't misgender a brand. You can't deadname a brand. You can't befriend a brand.
- You can't deadname a brand
  I sure can try with Twitter (derogatory)
  
  I like Hank Green''s version. X is the brand. Twitter is the people on it. You can buy the company, but you can't buy Twitter.
- You wouldn't download a brand

I never considered Dr Pepper as a person because they made a big deal about how it doesn't have a period in the name, like an actual doctor title would. So it's always just been a brand name to me.
But I'm a bit neurotic about nitpicky details like that.
- Dur pepper to me.
  
  Democratic Republic (of) Pepper.
  
  Dr Pepper was designed to taste like what a soda fountain smells like, a mix of flavors like when you made "swamp water" as a kid.
  So it's "Dur Pepper's Monster" to me.
  
  It was made for me! This is my soda!

I mean, they did have an entire ad campaign that was just misogyny a while back. Although then again maybe she was working through some shit.
- I don't keep up with ad campaigns, what?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c4iaetOC54

Dr. Pepper is an inanimate soft drink, there is no gender, but the one you assign to it.
- Dr. Marijuana Pepsi, on the other hand, is a woman.
  
  Based reference
- Look at you! You got the joke!
  
  Yeah this thread is full of people not getting a simple joke...
- Unless you speak a tongue with gendered objects, for me all soft drinks are female.
- omg non biney soder

...or that Dr. Pepper's degree might be in herpetology or Renaissance literature.
- The idea of a female herpetologist releasing a soft drink is amazing
  
  buy lizard piss today, crisp and refreshing!!
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Pepper
  His degree was in medicine, no one can prove why the drink may have been named for him, as he wasn't involved in the creation of it
  
  Had to look this up. Dr. Pepper was formulated in Waco Texas by a pharmacist named Charles Alderton, for the soda fountain in the drugstore where he worked. Some say his employer, Wade Morrison, named it after a Dr. Charles Pepper, the father of an old girlfriend. But the Dr. Pepper Museum in Waco has been unable to confirm this story.

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.

I never considered Dr. Pepper as a person
- I used to think that was just the name of whoever invented it until I got interested enough to see that wasn't the case. It was made by some dude name Chuck. Wasn't even a doctor!

I mean, it was made by two guys, one of whom may have named it after Dr. Charles T. Pepper. The guy was a real person.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Pepper

Dr Pepper , what ever their gender, is a quack.
- Not sure that he was. He wasn't involved in making the drink, and no one is certain why one of the creatirs seems to have had the drink named after him, but Dr. Charles T. Pepper was a real person and an actual medical doctor.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Pepper

For some reason I imagine dr pepper looking like a slightly bigger louis armstrong wearing a red t shirt standing by a kroger and I do not have the faintest idea why
- I imagine him looking like the Pringles guy

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)

Mr. Pibbs' wife.
- She’s the bread winner; he sits at home, plays Xbox, and smokes weed all day
  
  I think this is my new head cannon, the distracted Mr. Pibb and his focused wife, Dr. Pepper.
- I never imagined they were married, just that Dr. Pepper was his superior.

"I cannot operate on this soft drink, he's my son"

Yeah, she's probably so done with people going "Doctor Pepper? Don't you mean nurse?".

This meme reminded me of this sketch.
Trolls these days.

I always thought of it as a vegetable.
- I thought it was a spice.

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.

Only ever herd about pepper as a female name, but looking it up it seems unisex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(name)

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

- you guys should show some respect that doctors a war hero.

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