[HPforGrownups] A bit more Pomfrey (was Gender balance/strong women Madam Pomfrey in particular)

[Alexandra Y. Kwan]

No: HPFGUIDX 15051

Hello,

> No, the stereotype has been that way because until recently, the doctors
> *were* mostly male and the nurses *were* mostly female. The perception
> grew from the stereotype, not vice versa.

Yes, I meant to put a "since" instead of "because" there.  Thank you.

> And in the in-many-ways-quite-archaic world of wizards, "doctor" might
> still be a term that is not medical. Or never used at all, since they do
> not seem to have an educational system after Hogwarts. We call doctors
> doctors because that's the title they get from their institutions after
> advanced study. Any Ph.D. or J.D. is a doctorate. It's an educational
> level, and the wizarding world thus far has not exhibited comparable
> further formal education levels.

Well, I can get behind not used as a medical term, but I assume that word
*is* present in one way or another.  I mean, with the prevalence of Latin
based words in this universe, it's hard to imagine these people simply not
using the word.  After all, the word merely means "learned one" (learned
man).  Anyway, when did the word doctor become so intimately related to a
physician that they had more or less became synonyms?

little Alex


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