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kiwisson:
wsswatson:
you know what’s really irritating
when male academics constantly refer to men by their surnames and women by their first names
like you’d never go to a lecture expecting shakespeare to be referred to as “william” but it’s not at all uncommon to sit through an entire lecture in which jane austen is referred to constantly as “jane”
it’s such a petty thing but it just really rubs me the wrong way, like it has a real suggestion of respect and admiration/lack thereof
they’ll do this in sports, too. tennis commentators will refer to “federer and nadal” (roger and rafael) but “serena and maria” (williams and sharapova). i could alllllmost see referring to the williams sisters by their first names when they’re playing together or closely ranked in a particular tournament, but this is all. the. time.
i remember during olympic curling too, mirjam ott is in her early forties and one of the most decorated curlers in the world, but they kept either calling her mirjam or using her nickname “the swiss miss”. in her forties. at the olympics.
I know I’ve told this story before, but– My sister is in the Army. There are over a million people in the US Armed Forces. Every single one of them wears a name tape with their surname on it, on their chest. Every single one.
It is always the surname.
Our last name is one that is also sometimes a first name. (I know both men and women who use it as a first name.)
Before she married, my sister constantly had to deal with confusion, from other soldiers, who all also knew that the name on your tag is your surname, who thought it was her first name and called her by it.
It boggles the mind.
There are over a million people in the US military.
kiwisson:
wsswatson:
you know what’s really irritating
when male academics constantly refer to men by their surnames and women by their first names
like you’d never go to a lecture expecting shakespeare to be referred to as “william” but it’s not at all uncommon to sit through an entire lecture in which jane austen is referred to constantly as “jane”
it’s such a petty thing but it just really rubs me the wrong way, like it has a real suggestion of respect and admiration/lack thereof
they’ll do this in sports, too. tennis commentators will refer to “federer and nadal” (roger and rafael) but “serena and maria” (williams and sharapova). i could alllllmost see referring to the williams sisters by their first names when they’re playing together or closely ranked in a particular tournament, but this is all. the. time.
i remember during olympic curling too, mirjam ott is in her early forties and one of the most decorated curlers in the world, but they kept either calling her mirjam or using her nickname “the swiss miss”. in her forties. at the olympics.
I know I’ve told this story before, but– My sister is in the Army. There are over a million people in the US Armed Forces. Every single one of them wears a name tape with their surname on it, on their chest. Every single one.
It is always the surname.
Our last name is one that is also sometimes a first name. (I know both men and women who use it as a first name.)
Before she married, my sister constantly had to deal with confusion, from other soldiers, who all also knew that the name on your tag is your surname, who thought it was her first name and called her by it.
It boggles the mind.
There are over a million people in the US military.
