"a title she is entitled to, so what value is there in not respecting her wishes?" Because it's pompous, self-aggrandizing and totally deserving of ridicule fo

"a title she is entitled to, so what value is there in not respecting her wishes?" Because it's pompous, self-aggrandizing and totally deserving of ridicule for people to use highly formal titles when it is not normative. More ridiculous are the attacks on anyone who objects to it as 'sexist and partisan'. Profs and PhDs in the United States and elsewhere do not use such titles outside of Academia. Nobody in the US uses the term but medical doctors and dentists, or, in the most formal of situations. Profs if they are teaching - maybe. Do we say 'Doctor' when they talk about Steven Pinker? Neil De Grasse Tyson? Angel Merkel? Anyone else ? No, of course not. 'Dr. Sanjay Gupta' on CNN - yes - of course, but not because he's a PhD, but because he's a Medical Doctor, that is the normative usage, and it's relevant to his work. Anyone has the 'right' to use such titles can obviously use them, but you can also wear a Tuxedo to Applebee's, that doesn't make it not ridiculous.