Let's talk about Doctors

The abysmal stupidity of the conservative mind never ceases to amaze me. Also, misogyny. Because they both usually go hand in hand. And this week we got a taste of both, courtesy of the neverending fuckey that is people. Take this op ed that they dared publish in the WSJ criticizing Dr. Jill Biden for using the title 'Doctor'. The good thing? People rightfully raked them through red hot coals for the asshattery. 

But let's see, what does 'Doctor' mean?

Doctor:

a: Christianity : an eminent theologian declared a sound expounder of doctrine by the Roman Catholic Church

b: a learned or authoritative teacher

c: a person who has earned one of the highest academic degrees (such as a PhD) conferred by a university

So Jill Biden IS indeed a doctor. Take into account that after earning two Master's Degrees, she received her PH.D. from the University of Delaware. Her title is, Doctor of Philosophy. That's her title. Meanwhile, Joseph Epstein, who once taught at Northwestern University twenty years ago decided that she should drop it. All while being an absolute dick and adding to his condescending snobbery some non-veiled-at-all sexism. He went as far as call the Elected First Lady 'kiddo' and mock her work doing research for a community college. I was LIVID. The misogyny. The fuckery. It was so transparent it made me scream. 

Of course, the WSJ, being the cesspool of conservatism it is, tried to paint the outrage as a hit job from the Biden camp. Well, fuck them and everybody who found the strength to decide only Doctors of Medicine could have that title.  And those include of course, Fucker Carlson, that Children of the Corn Ben Shapiro -the one who has never have a woman lubricate-  and the usual suspects in fuckery and asshattery in Fox News and right-wing media, ready to clutch their pearls for anything but corruption. Fucker Carlson, who has had Nazi Sebastian Gorka in his program and has called him DOCTOR had the nerve to compare Dr. Biden to Dr. Pepper. Fucking dick. Ben decided to use one of his strawman comparisons and decided to add his three cents of stupidity by wondering what kind of Doctor people would rather have by their side when choking in a restaurant. CPR and a phone to call 911, I'd say. But of course, they do it for clicks. Cause they're whores. And I'd have to ask whores to excuse me for bringing them into this kerfuffle. Whores are awesome.

The thing is, the guy who wrote the article has a fucking honorary degree. Yep. The guy asking Dr. Biden to drop her -hard earned- title has a fucking honorary degree. The nerve. And he has published only opinion pieces here and there. No scholarship that he can talk about. How's that for ironic, Alanis? Also, his opinion means shit to me.  Mr. Epstein (his degree is honorary, am I right?) wrote an article years ago so virulently homophobic that it is still remembered: 

They are different front the rest of us. Homosexuals are different, moreover, in a way that cuts deeper than other kinds of human differences—religious, class, racial—in a way that is, somehow, more fundamental. Cursed without clear cause, afflicted without apparent cure, they are an affront to our rationality, living evidence of our despair of ever finding a sensible, an explainable, design to the world. One can tolerate homosexuality, a small enough price to be asked to pay for someone else’s pain, but accepting it, really accepting it, is another thing altogether. I find I can accept it least of all when I look at my children. There is much my four sons can do in their lives that might cause me anguish, that might outrage me, that might make me ashamed of them and of myself as their father. But nothing they could ever do would make me sadder than if any of them were to become homosexual. For then I should know them condemned to a state of permanent niggerdom among men, their lives, whatever adjustment they might make to their condition, to be lived out as part of the pain of the earth.

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Yep, that's the man who thinks Dr. Jill Biden, PH.D. should not use the honorific in her name. Well, he sounds like any other right-wing sexist bigot to me. Because there's always men thoroughly intimidated by a successful woman. Or absolutely horrified by gay men. That's the kind of person we're dealing with here. From my point of view, If somebody wants to use the honorific, well, more power to them. It takes four years as an undergrad, two years in a Master's program and four in a PH.D. program to earn that degree. You have to write a dissertation (and defend it) to be able to wear that regalia at the end, and accept your diploma. 

That somebody like Epstein, Carlson or Shapiro would decide that Dr. Jill Biden should not use her honorific, is just a sample of the pettiness and stupidity that's going to permeate conservative circles in the next four years. The conservative minds (anti-science, anti-knowledge and anti-women) will find a way to diminish, tarnish and criticize every single thing that this administration is going to do. They will suddenly forget the last four years of corruption, grifting, mediocrity, ignorance, racism, xenophobia, sexism, kakistocracy and deadly ineptitude that have characterized Agolf Twitler's administration. 

An administration plagued by scandals so numerous, so abundant, that they have their own domain online. so allow me to spit on the face of Mr Epstein (and Carlson, and Shapiro) and tell them to go fuck themselves. Dr. Biden could slap Cheeto's mail order bride on her way out of the White House and I'd clap. Damn, I'd pay-per-view to watch that. But Dr. Biden won't do that. Because no matter what you think, there is a world of difference between the Bidens and IMPOTUS' classless malignant narcissism and the supercilious malignity of his coterie of villainous ill-breeding giglets. 

I despise them all with the strength of seven thousand suns.

Oh, that felt good. Now, chocolate.

XOXO