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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Maybe she was a radical. Dr. Pepper, suffragette.

[–] EvacuateSoul 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Technically it's a gendered word, and a woman could be called a doctrix, similar to dominator/dominatrix.

Edit: phrasing and add picture