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Why is it a problem to address a Senator as a senator?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on December 16, 2009, 07:59:59 pm ---Wanting to be addressed by your proper title is only lip-service and a sign of insecurity? Hmmm, maybe I should tell my doctor or a judge or a police officer that next time I see them.... ::)
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Whatever. ...
You deliberately ignored the part of my post concerning the fact that the general was not being disrespectful to the senator, and a senator who is sitting up on a dais and looking down on a general, who is not treating her disrespectfully, and still feels compelled to lecture him like a schoolmarm on how to address her, clearly has issues. ...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 16, 2009, 08:13:34 pm ---Whatever. ...
You deliberately ignored the part of my post concerning the fact that the general was not being disrespectful to the senator, and a senator who is sitting up on a dais and looking down on a general, who is not treating her disrespectfully, and still feels compelled to lecture him like a schoolmarm on how to address her, clearly has issues. ...
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To me, it sounds like the senator overreacted by making a big deal out of it. Then her political opponents overreacted even more by making an even bigger deal out of it.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 16, 2009, 08:19:21 pm ---To me, it sounds like the senator overreacted by making a big deal out of it. Then her political opponents overreacted even more by making an even bigger deal out of it.
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I think she did, too, and it was a political misstep because by so doing she handed ammunition to her opponents.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 16, 2009, 08:13:34 pm ---Whatever. ...
You deliberately ignored the part of my post concerning the fact that the general was not being disrespectful to the senator, and a senator who is sitting up on a dais and looking down on a general, who is not treating her disrespectfully, and still feels compelled to lecture him like a schoolmarm on how to address her, clearly has issues. ...
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Well, since we don't know what the general was calling the senators who were men, we really don't know how 'respectful' the general was being at all. Maybe he WAS supposed to be calling her Senator?
That she wants to be called by her title is a 'lecture'? Whatever..
mariez:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 16, 2009, 07:32:48 pm ---Sure enough, but even that can vary. When I was in graduate school, the professors in my department felt it was ... hmmm ... I guess parvenu would be the appropriate word ... to be addressed as Doctor. It was just assumed that if you were teaching where they were teaching, you had a Ph.D. :laugh:
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:laugh: I was thinking the same thing! Years ago, I was an adjunct at a community college, teaching a business law class. There was another adjunct, who insisted that his students refer to him as "Dr. ____." Now, although attorneys have a "juris doctor" they are never, never addressed as "Dr." It simply is not done. And I remember all the eye-rolling that was done behind his back. I also remember how shocked he was when he asked me how my students addressed me and I told him that they called me by my first name. Some of the students were older than I was at the time! :laugh:
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