[lace-chat] Names and titles

[Rosemary Naish]

Seeing all these comments about married women being addressed by their 
husbands name prefixed with Mrs set off one of my pet niggles.  My 
family background is Quaker, and I taught to address people by their 
given name & family name and not to use titles as everyone is equal, 
and using titles denote inequality.  For myself I only ever use my 
given name & family name, Rosemary Naish, and normally this is 
acceptable, except when you come to a computer. Most systems seem to 
insist on using a title, so I always use the default, which is normally 
set to "Mr" - this does seem to upset a lot of sales assistants, bank 
clerks etc, but I think it just shows how out of date and ridiculous 
the whole system of courtsey titles is.  What I have no problem with is 
titles that have been earned, like Doctor, Professor, etc.  What do 
other people think?

Rosemary,
Somerset
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