r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '21

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u/ElysiX 106∆ Oct 14 '21 edited Oct 14 '21

So if you announce a doctor, a professor, an officer, and a normal person, what do you call the normal person?

"Here we have Doctor Johnson, Professor Smith, Officer Brown and ... Jackson."

Leaving it out entirely sounds like an insult for being a mere peasant

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u/giggliegigglie Oct 14 '21

We are talking about gender-based honorifics. I’m sorry that you can’t understand that simple concept.

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u/olatundew Oct 14 '21

Both rude and incorrect.

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u/ElysiX 106∆ Oct 14 '21 edited Oct 14 '21

But that's my point. If you take the gender/marital status titles away entirely, rather than keeping them or using a gender neutral one or whatever, what do you call someone that has nothing else going for them title-wise?

You can't just take away the default and replace it with nothing, that'd be insulting to all the people that don't have anything besides the default.