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Is there a doctor in the house? The gendered use of honorifics : Comments
By Evelyn Tsitas, published 18/9/2017In April, the local arm of global banking giant HSBC started offering customers the choice of multiple
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Why should anyone take issue with a title, be it Mz, Miss, Missy, Mr, Mister, Minister, Mrs or Lady?
Me, I prefer Mate, Cobber or Alan!
As for Sir, I tend to stand/come to attention, [even if sat,] and salute. Just make a point?
We Aussies just don't stand on ceremony and don't have much time for toffee nosed snobs or Feminazis, who do!
There are a thousand and one things far more important, than precious petals who have their, often autocratic to a fault, feelings hurt? By social conventions of a, new to them, land!?
Or by women who want all the benefits of marriage except the usual social conventions?
I know of third world women who would give their eye teeth to be Mrs somebody/anybody in a land of opportunity.
Time to start counting your garden by the flowers in it, rather than the weeds, Dr!
By the way Dr. If you don't like us and our old fashioned social conventions? You're at perfect liberty to return to your ancestral homeland!
Alan B.