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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not OP and haven't read the thread.

Personally I think honorifics should be done away with entirely. I don't think doctors should insist on Dr. I don't think professors should be Prof. I think the use of honorifics perpetuates power imbalances that on the whole aren't good. Let everyone go by first name. And yes, I have honorifics I could use but I don't.

An adult insisting another adult use a title is just cringeworthy behavior to me. [/quote]

+1. Campus isn't British aristocracy. And lets not even get into the historic inequities that prevented people of color, the poor, and women from having access to earn certain credentials. As long as you're polite, there's nothing wrong with using people's first name. It's lunacy that would send anyone off the edge. Go see a shrink if it does. Your credentials earn you a higher salary and more prestigious jobs, [b]not perpetual servitude.[/quote][/b]

I don't think you meant what you typed.  And you are wrong.  Professors are called "Dr." on campus and "Professor" in law school.  I never called anyone by their first name nor have my children. [b] It's a siign of respect and expected.[/b][/quote]

But only if it is expected.  Not at all clear that it was in the case of OP's DD.[/quote]
No, that's the point that most posters in this thread are making. Unless a professor explicitly tells you otherwise, it's expected that you use Professor. [/quote]

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