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Dried-up, Resentful Old Man Publishes Opinion Piece in WSJ
As with Uteruses, if you do not have a Doctorate your opinion on them is Likely Irrelevant
Honestly, if I had a penny for every time some man questioned my seriousness in a thing based on my gender I’d be a goddamn millionaire. And yes, for those of you who don’t know me, I hold a PhD. I also hold an MA, an MSc, two BAs and a certificate in ethnomusicology. (It was the only way I could justify listening to classical Turkish court music. Yes, I’m weird. Let’s move on.)
I suppose we should start with some backstory here. Dr. Jill Biden has a doctorate. She, like me also holds two master’s degrees. I do not know how many bachelor’s degrees she holds. Anyway, predictably, some absurdly up-jumped old man decided to go on a misogynist rant over her daring to have said title, and the Wall Street Journal took it upon themselves to publish the exercise in self-immolation in their op-ed section. I won’t link it because despite it being the centre of this discussion it oddly doesn’t add anything to it and — as the handful of people who hate-read my stuff will be disappointed to discover — there is no algorithm which distinguishes hate-reading from normal traffic. I don’t think the author (if we can call him that; it seems “fraudulent and comical,”) or the WSJ should earn…
