Signs someone is a lightweight

Usually, it is not the Display name. The Display name is Joe Smith, Ed.D.

In the body of the correspondence, it becomes Dr. Smith.

You don't have to be William Hanson to know this.

Are you anti-intellectual, OP?

[quote] Usually, it is not the Display name.

Usually, it's not in the display name. When "Dr." is in the display name, it's a sign someone is a lightweight, as I said. No one should refer to themself as "Dr."

"Display" is not capitalized. Are you unfamiliar with the rules of capitalization in the English language?

OP you are very clearly envious.

OP, someone with a higher degree has embarrassed you. Yikes.

I have a Ph.D. from a top school. No one with a real degree refers to themself in that way. My inbox is full of spam from "doctors."

Dear Dr. OP,

Please clarify exactly what you mean by lightweight. I understand that you mean it as a put-down, but it’s very vague. Do you mean intellectually a lightweight? Insecure like you? Wasn’t brought up with the social graces of established academic family? Underfed? Not in your boxing class of overweight fatties?

A Facebook acquaintance of mine got her "PhD" in a lightweight educational program via online coursework. She writes things now as (e.g.), "Dr. Cheryl Fartblast". She even occasionally puts out bad "free verse" poetry signed with the Dr name. It's ridiculous.

Almost everyone I met as an educator who had an Ed D was a complete airhead. I can’t imagine a more worthless degree.

OP: “ I have a Ph.D. from a top school. No one with a real degree refers to themself in that way. My inbox is full of spam from "doctors."”

Very MAGA. Much of the rest of the world does not follow this very American approach.

lightweight? is this a new definition

to me it means that can't handle drinking alcohol or doing drugs

Ahh R10 I think you’ve solved the riddle. OP is disparaging people who can’t handle their krakodil.

Yes, those with meaningful doctorates like MD and PhD usually don’t add Dr before their name. Their degrees speak for themselves. Usually those with the lightweight doctorates will be the first to call themselves Dr

Thank you, r12.

How is it MAGA to allow a degree to speak for itself?

I know OP is a troll, but for some general perspective:

I have a PhD, but I actually find it distasteful to advertise the fact, especially in non-academic settings. In professional settings, it's almost taken for granted that everyone has a doctorate so no need to bring it up. My reticence might be, in part, because I grew up in a non-educated family and didn't even know someone with a PhD until I was a senior in high school. Now, I am surrounded by PhDs, and it's become normalized. But I recognize that for many people -- including my younger self -- people with doctorates seem intimidating, even intellectually other-wordly. (Being in academia quickly disabused me of this belief.) I like to think of myself as approachable.

The only time I trot out the title "Dr" title is when I write letters of recommendation for former students.

^^^ ignore typos

"Signs someone is a lightweight."

Starts stupid threads on anonymous internet message boards.

[quote]I have a Ph.D. from a top school.

It is elitist to deny the use of “Dr.” to only a small group of people who actually have doctorates

Is like when I say architect. I draw pretty houses. I also supermodel.

R2, of course I know capitalization rules. But I break the rule as to what I consider a Proper Noun.

Silly Wabbit.

This thread is annoying. I thus punish you all with this image by the ultimate “Doctor” to shut it down.

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Lightweight - someone with a BA that puts this on their door sign/signature line. NO ONE CARES

Saying they want to write a novel.

I'm okay with any science PhD using "Dr." in their names, rather than limiting it to only medical doctors.

I don't think that a liberal arts PhD is the same thing.

Go earn a PhD in classics and get back to us, r25

There's a nurse practitioner who is locally infamous for her email signature, which contains a preposterous number of meaningless acronyms. That's common in nursing, but usually on a smaller scale. She claims so many disparate specialties that amused colleagues circulated screenshots.

Anal leakage

Pathos climbing the walls

Sturdy paper plates for the microwave

Boucle furniture

Branches as light fixtures

“Dr.” is now mostly used by minorities who have earned it.

r27, it's LinkedIn-itis

My sister is a Microbiologist who worked damned hard for her degrees and she uses Dr. in certain situations.

This is completely normal and expected amongst the highest ranking of professionals such as myself!

OP’s feelings were hurt

Anyone who uses Esq. referring to themself.

It’s a term of address, not a title.

My feelings aren't hurt. I'm enjoying my thread.

I miss the days when a finely engraved business card said it all.

If Rachel Maddow were hired on by a Democratic Administration for any position, she would immediately become Dr. Maddow.

Like Dr. Kissinger.

The public assumes Dr means physicians and PhDs and other who use Dr wants the public to think they’re physicians

I'm surprised that RFK Jr. hasn't been awarded an MD from Trump University.

"Signs someone is a lightweight"

They start threads about "Signs someone is a lightweight"

r40 are you also r16?

[Quote] I'm surprised that RFK Jr. hasn't been awarded an MD from Trump University.

I’m sure some Florida or Texas university will give him an honorary degree for being the best HHS secretary ever

Only MDs are legitimate doctors. A psychiatrist yes, a psychologist no.

Do you guys realize what the “D” in “Ph.D” stands for?

For all who are so impressed with their PhDs, that and $2.90 will get you a ride on the New York City subway.

r45, same with an MD...

Only a dolt needs to be told more than once a person is a Philosophy Doctor, Doctor.

But anti intellectuals hate someone seeming BETTER THAN THEY ARE.

Jill Biden fried my cookies running around being "Dr. Jill Biden." Got into it with a few older women social-work degrees who supported her. My feeling is for most of America a Dr. title preceding a name is always thought of as medical training, On a college campus an Ed.d may have weight. But a doctorate in music and used socially is just lame.

I’m around PhDs all the time and I always address them as Dr. unless they object to being addressed that way.

I don’t see why it causes some people psychological distress to address people by a title like Doctor, General, or Councilman

So, Dr Jill Biden, PhD sounds better?

Grow the fuck up.

Oh, R1, talk about affectation, William Hanson sure is a priss-pot. I mean really, has The English Manner, an etiquette and protocol coaching company? Listen to him, he is not posh, only got through one of the red bricks, the University of Manchester. That’s not reading law at Magdalene, Cambridge. His podcast buddy, Jordan North, now that’s another story! Woof! Just a step above StreetBoy, but …..

Sorry, Dr Jill Biden, EdD,...