# What makes someone like Megyn Kelly so nasty? I just don't understand the need for this sort of thing

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**Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-like-megyn-kelly-so-nasty-i-just-dont-understand-the-need-for-this-sort-of-thing/979008/50 "2023-01-31T12:13:25Z")

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Here is a thread of almost 300 posts from late 2020 on the topic of when & whether using the title “Doctor” is appropriate for both MDs and other flavors of folks with advanced degrees. Of course it was started in response to some RW jerkwad poking fun at Dr. Jill Biden.

> [@Oh goodie. Now we have the political sexist take on who gets to be called "Dr"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-goodie-now-we-have-the-political-sexist-take-on-who-gets-to-be-called-dr/927973):
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> Recent column in the Wall Street Journal begins: Apparently the columnist, Joseph Epstein, B.A., thinks that Dr Biden shouldn’t be using her doctorate as a form of address. We had that discussion of non-medical doctorates here last year, of course, but as a question of academic nomenclature, without referring to female holders of doctorates as “kiddo”, “fraudulent” and “comic”: But, what else should one expect from the Wall Street Journal, that bastion of enlightened thought?

This cite includes a reference to an earlier 100+ post thread about the same topic but started in reference to a non-celebrity PhD’s attitude to his title.

So this particular issue raised by Kelly’s current bloviations has already been well-litigated here.

None of which takes away from Kelly being a deplorable playing to the deplorable seats. But the “who should call themselves ‘Dr.’ when?” debate is a distraction from that righteous Kelly-bashing we all (me certainly included) enjoy so much.

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