re: Smug PhD gets put in her place

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At the time (22 years old), my worldview was shocked. How could someone who had a Ph.D., something I strived to achieve, be so completely moronic? I convinced myself it was a one-off and moved on. But over the years, I can think of several (mostly women) who had reached a terminal degree but I'm not sure they could actually do anything.

And they all had the same thing in common - smug, feminist, unmarried (or divorced). I refuse to respect them anymore. I have a friend who is an actual brain surgeon who demands we call him by his first name. There is a social work professor who has a doctorate from UL Monroe that screams at students that do not call her Dr.

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My friend's late father had PhD in Mathematics. He was literally a mathmatical genius.

He would seriously get pissed if you called hims "Dr." My family knew theirs for years. We knew he was a professor at a local university. Then one day we saw a newspaper article that referred to him by the Dr. prefix. When my mother asked is she should call him "Dr". He laughed and said, "not if you know what's good for you, you won't."

He was one of those "smart" smart people. Had the PhD and a lot of common sense to go with it.