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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!
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.
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 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.
you guys should show some respect that doctors a war hero.
You can't misgender a brand. You can't deadname a brand. You can't befriend a brand.
You wouldn't download 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.
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
Dr. Pepper is an inanimate soft drink, there is no gender, but the one you assign to it.
Unless you speak a tongue with gendered objects, for me all soft drinks are female.
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Look at you! You got the joke!
Yeah this thread is full of people not getting a simple joke...
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.
...or that Dr. Pepper's degree might be in herpetology or Renaissance literature.
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
The idea of a female herpetologist releasing a soft drink is amazing
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I always thought of it as a vegetable.
I thought it was a spice.
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.
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.
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