{"id":45548,"date":"2020-12-13T17:12:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45548"},"modified":"2020-12-13T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T17:13:02","slug":"this-attack-is-sexist-to-the-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45548","title":{"rendered":"Criticism is sexist to the core"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=JillBiden%20%23sexism%20%23WSJ%20%23MAGA%20%40JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jill-biden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45549\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jill-biden-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jill-biden-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jill-biden-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jill-biden-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jill-biden.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sexism stinks as badly as racism, ageism or any form of prejudice that poisons the human spirit.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;Dr. Jill Biden.&#8221; The author of the screed, Joseph Epstein, said she should stop doing so, calling it &#8220;fraudulent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Umm. No. It isn&#8217;t. Good grief, dude.<\/p>\n<p>Jill Biden earned a doctorate in education long ago. She has every right to call herself &#8220;Dr. Biden,&#8221; as does anyone who chooses to use the honorific title to her.<\/p>\n<p>Just as a point of personal privilege, I don&#8217;t necessarily like tossing the term around for anyone and I routinely decline to use the term to describe &#8220;academic doctors&#8221;; I reserve the title to describe in initial references to medical doctors.<\/p>\n<p>That said, any suggestion that a great newspaper such as the WSJ would publish such a hideous screed smacks of sexism.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone really believe the newspaper would have allowed such a thing to see print if it referred to a <em>man<\/em> who calls himself &#8220;Dr. So and So&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Read the screed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-white-house-not-if-you-need-an-m-d-11607727380\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stupidity still festers.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=JillBiden%20%23sexism%20%23WSJ%20%23MAGA%20%40JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Dr. Jill Biden.&#8221; The author of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Criticism is sexist to the core<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2469,5154],"class_list":["post-45548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-jill-biden","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45551,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45548\/revisions\/45551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}