oh no absolutely no. if there is one thing i will not do it's police how people from countries without something as insane as a nobility arrange the words in conjunctions that include "sir" and "lord" and even "keir"
if there is one traditional aspect of being American I live by, it’s absolutely refusing to acknowledge or play along with British royalty and nobility bullshit
I believe the term is "transworthy". If someone identifies as right and honorable, who are we to
I'm sorry, I can't finish that thought even for the sake of the bit.
Wait, is this why the UK elite is like this about trans people? Things suddenly make a lot more sense if they're literally reading it as class fealty (which is how the UK's political/media class reads everything)
Like the thing about using someone's preferred form of address, it's generally because you don't want to antagonize someone for no reason. There are many very good reasons to antagonize the British nobility.
No, it's more like "call me Doctor, not Mister", because a group of people who've been historical and governmentally approved to do so, have declared that I've earned it. Sir Keir did some work and got a gong out of it.
Except that being a doctor requires doing a shit-ton of work in a way that is recognized internationally as a credential, not just being born fancy and/or getting booped on the shoulder with a sword by a specific country's mascot rich person
AFAIK, Sir Keir got his title as the result of a serious amount of time and effort put in as the Director of Public Prosecutions, serving the government and the public. He didn't inherit it, it wasn't given because he had a shedload of money to invest in corruption.
He got his title for prosecuting nonviolent protesters whilst declining to prosecute cops who shot unarmed civilians and government operatives who tortured people. Not something I'm inclined to respect.
So, that's funny because a historical and governmentally approved group of people I belong to went to war with your group of historical and governmentally approved people over the right to disclaim those titles. And we won. And even put it in our constitution that your titles are void to us.
Titles are due only when there’s an appropriate relationship. I call my doctor “doctor,” but not my friends who are doctors. I’m not in the military, so I don’t call anyone by their rank.
As I’m not a part of the UK, he’s not Sir Kier any more than I expect others to call me Sir.
It's nothing like that.
You can't call the Prime Minister, whose last name is Starmer, "Prime Minister Starmer?"
Related:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN9c...
British honorifics deserve the same acknowledgement and respect as an honorary doctorate (none). Getting knighted or whatever just means someone whose greatest accomplishment is falling out of the right vagina felt like booping you with a sword.
As a PhD holder, my view is that anybody with one insisting on being called "doctor" is, under most but not all conditions, a chump. (my view about the other kind of doctor is less well-formed, but there's hierarchical nonsense there that needs abolishing)
I can see where you're coming from, but my opinion is coloured by incidents like those where Dr Jill Biden was being disrespected by the usual suspects for daring to possess, let alone even assert, a title other than "Mrs".
I've managed to avoid, with effort, most of that kind of media coverage, and I'm sure it was nasty, but I'm still not going to refer to Jill Biden as "Dr" unless it's a matter of, say, the secret service saying I'd better if I want to keep the rest of my teeth
