What's In A Name? (Round Two)
It was about a year ago that I wrote What's In A Name? Turns out that post was Round One, wherein this COW* mooed about pastoral nomenclature, particularly that male pastors are generally called Pastor Good, Pastor Martin, and Pastor Smith whereas ordained females are more often known as Pastor Kathy, Pastor Ann, and Pastor Beth. I didn't care for it. It struck me as infantilizing, belittling, even denigrating. And, brother , sister , here we go again: I'm disgusted with "the media" on a couple of fronts, and I won't go into detail on that except for this one issue. Currently we have three very well-known individuals running for the two most important jobs in the country and one person who recently withdrew from that race. Most of the media I consult refer to them as Trump, Vance, Biden and Kamala. Huh? And why has Kristina** let this slide? The NYT is the exception. As annoyed as I've been with them recently, they continue to use titles for people the
