By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com
Sexism stinks as badly as racism, ageism or any form of prejudice that poisons the human spirit.
Sexism revealed itself in a pointless essay published in the Wall Street Journal that questions why Jill Biden, wife of the president-elect, keeps referring to herself as “Dr. Jill Biden.” The author of the screed, Joseph Epstein, said she should stop doing so, calling it “fraudulent.”
Umm. No. It isn’t. Good grief, dude.
Jill Biden earned a doctorate in education long ago. She has every right to call herself “Dr. Biden,” as does anyone who chooses to use the honorific title to her.
Just as a point of personal privilege, I don’t necessarily like tossing the term around for anyone and I routinely decline to use the term to describe “academic doctors”; I reserve the title to describe in initial references to medical doctors.
That said, any suggestion that a great newspaper such as the WSJ would publish such a hideous screed smacks of sexism.
Does anyone really believe the newspaper would have allowed such a thing to see print if it referred to a man who calls himself “Dr. So and So”?
Read the screed here.
Stupidity still festers.
I agree. If she wants to call herself dr. I have no problem. I won’t call her dr. As I refer doctors as medical professionals. We have quite a few in the educational area that calls them doctors. I’ve never understood how this got started. It’s a PHd and not a MD.