“DOCTOR Jill Biden” - Why does the media push and even accentuate this title?

We really do have some of the dumbest trolls on the Internet, don't we?

I eat old people’s excrement.

I think OP has a legitimate point. Flaunting the credentials is absurd and pretentious.

It has nothing to do with supporting Biden, which anybody with a brain will do.

You beat me to the reply, R1...LOL. If it "consults to a large research university" and its just exhibited the limits of his reasoning, I weep for whatever "research" is being produced.

Trollshit :)

I cringe when academics ask to be referred to by their doctorate. If someone is having a heart attack and yells for a doctor, they don’t mean a pompous nerd who got a Ph.D in Russian Literature.

Med school, residencies, and internships are astronomically more challenging than reading and writing books for a few years, and it’s embarrassing to even expect to be compared to that.

I think it also bit Blasey Ford in the ass too.

If we can pretend Melania isn't a hooker we can call Jill, a doctor.

I could care less if she’s a Dr of chiropractic with a certificate from Tijuana. At least she’s better than the first whore.

I am architekt, I goed to universitee een Slovenia for about five weeks!

Jill Biden for Surgeon General!

It’s interesting the way doctors are revered in the US, and yet in the UK, they don’t seem to garner much respect. Both Kate and Gerry McCann (parents to missing Madeleine) are medical doctors, but the press always refers to them as “Mr and Mrs McCann.”

Ed.Ds typically insist on being called "doctor" because they rightfully perceive themselves as holding worthless degrees no one respects. I would never ask people to call me "doctor" because it's tacky.

I think I'll have eggs this morning.

Don't forget Dr. Bill Cosby!

[quote] And while she’s at it, maybe an age and FLOTUS-appropriate hemline.

Is this hemline more FLOTUS-appropriate?

Notice how the OP doesn't bother to back up his claim that Jill Biden "has really milked her community college background" or that she is personally "insisting on being called 'doctor'." He simply asserts it.

I have two PhDs (not bragging—in retrospect, the second one was a why bother). I would never ask someone to address me as “Dr.” At some schools, it’s the convention; at others (usually tonier schools), it’s a sign of being “nouveau,” usually reserved for recent grads. That said, I think it’s petty to use Dr. for a PhD and not for EdD. They are both doctorate degrees. Lawyers almost never use the title Dr. “Esq” is their professional prevention.

[QUOTE] I have two PhDs (not bragging—in retrospect, the second one was a why bother).

A humble brag within a humble brag. Very impressive, Dr. R16.

So, you're a doctor like Kissinger is a doctor?

I'm so stupid I can't even tell the difference

R17 I knew someone would accuse me of humblebrag. I did the second one as a way of getting funding for a full sabbatical year as much as anything. Anyone who has gone through a decent undergrad can write a dissertation—it takes long hard work more than anything remotely like original intelligence.

I worked with a pretentious, pompous guy with a doctorate in education who insisted on being called "Dr." including in print. He was pissed when he found out our style is to write John Smith, Ph.D.; John Smith, M.D.; John Smith, Ed.D.; etc.

Then he made a big deal out of how it wasn't necessary to list his degree--so humble!

I've met Dr. Jill Biden a few times--she has some of the hallmarks of being a wonderful person--and she would be a monumental improvement for the country compared to its current First Lady.

When and where does she "insist" on being called Doctor?

Is the media the one pushing the Dr moniker?

It was embarrassing when Whoopi suggested Jill be the. Surgeon general because she’s an “amazing doctor”.

Yes, just like they’re the ones pushing Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben off food boxes while telling us that “black people” are demanding it.

Jill will most likely be the one with the real power if Biden becomes president. And I'm ok wth that

The horror of referring to someone by the honorific! You'd think we were a nation of idiots incapable of respecting anyone of achievement... oh, wait. Nevermind.

Dr. Pepper deserves our respect too.

the title of "doctor" originally had nothing whatsoever to do with medical practitioners. it was solely an academic distinction.

so stop crying about "doctor" being co-opted by non-medicals. YOU snooty-asses are the co-optors, and are just afraid of anyone having any kind of status on par with you.

What’s your doctorate in, R29? The study of pots and pans? You are the most essential worker right now.

Why should ANYONE be given the honorific "Dr." outside of their professional work auspices? Why do we call MDs "doctor" in social situations?

That should be the real question.

They use it to make Jill Biden sound very smart and accomplished. It works on idiots like Whoopi.

"Yes, just like they’re the ones pushing Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben off food boxes while telling us that “black people” are demanding it."

As opposed to Republicans who freak out over a food company changing their packaging. Who cares if they do?

r32 thinks Melania Trump is smart and accomplished and speaks 5 languages

Two PhDs is arguably tackier than insisting that people call you doctor.

R34, Nah most decent people can see that hoth parties and their representives are no good.

She taught English as a second language at a local Community College in Northern Virginia. Which is fine but she puts on such airs at times.

I think the Dr is a bit much too.

CRINGE!

The average ntelligence of a typical brainwashed Bernie hater on display.

It's about comparisons. "Who would you rather have as a First Lady, a doctor or a pornstar?"

Most physicians refer to themselves when amongst colleagues, as physicians instead of doctors. At least the ones that I’m around. For instance if they think you’re a physician they’ll ask “are you a physician?”instead of “are you a doctor?”

R36 is the both sides troll. Melania went to college for a semester but pretended to be a graduate

[quote]Dr. Pepper

There is no period