Racism, I Don't Think So, Perhaps It's Your Attitude Madam?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5860265/Cambridge-don-sparks-racism-row-refusing-supervise-Kings-College-students.html

[douglas9401]

All that because she can't parallel park? :-)

[Zacs-Master]

An over inflated ego if ever I saw one. She is a prolific user of Twitter, having posted more than 17,000 tweets in the past seven years. I mean......who takes to social media at every given opportunity?

'a vehement supporter of Jeremy Corbyn' 'Nuff said.

[Mamyalynne]

Without going through the hundreds of incidents she claims have taken place it's very hard to unravel.

[Zacs-Master]

Don't the hundreds of incidents tell you something tho, Mamya?

[Mamyalynne]

They give a hint.

[aelmpvw]

sounds like she's being a bit of a madam to me ...

[Bazile]

If other female doctors are referred to as 'Dr' and she isn't , then that is a bit odd , irrespective of what she believes the reason to be

[anotheoldgit]

Bazile

Yes but we don't know what attitude she took when the first Porter happened to call her Madam, word soon gets around among the lower classes you know.

[rowanwitch]

I suspect all female staff are called madam by the porters, she sounds like a character from Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue. I don't know how they would cope with my mum's friend who is a Dame, a doctor and a major,

[Baldric]

Gosh, she does have a lot to say, doesn't she?
Nothing disrespectful about being called Madam, and unless I've missed it it does not say White Female Doctors are addressed as Dr.

[andy-hughes]

I am entirely in agreement with AOG (I know!)

This woman is ludicrously thin-skinned for someone who is obviously bright enough to know better.

[Sqad]

Supervise? Supervise? What does that mean?

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

/// I am entirely in agreement with AOG (I know!) ///

Yes I do know, it does happen, but it does not actually hurt now does it Andy?

In fact there was a time when I awarded you a BA.

[maggiebee]

//I mean......who takes to social media at every given opportunity?//

Well ZM you seem to do a pretty good job of it"

[anotheoldgit]

Sqad

/// Supervise? Supervise? What does that mean? ///

Those King's College students do need some supervising from time to time. :0)

[cassa333]

What do porters have to do with supervis8ng students?

Madam is an entirely respectful address. Perhaps she is a bit of a shrew and they carry on doing it not because she is black but because she is an ***.

[ToraToraTora]

silly moo!

[Baldric]

/// What do porters have to do with supervis8ng students? ///

Nothing as far as I know Cassa, they just keep upsetting the thin skinned one who does the supervising.

[jim360]

Supervisions are Cambridge vernacular for tutorials, Sqad.

[Sqad]

Thanks Jim.