That's *Ms.* Smarty-pants to you.

[miss_chance]

On the Donations Page for Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders, the Billing Information section requires that you select a "Title

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[deguspice]

They have "Mr. & Mr." and "Ms. & Ms.", but not "Mrs. & Mrs.".

[bedfull_o_books]

I noticed that too. It bugs me for reasons I am not caffeinated enough to put my finger on.

[miss_chance]

Someone else will articulate it better, but "Mrs." is used to denote married women, where as "Ms." translates more to "I'd rather not say," or as I learned it growing up "My social status is unrelated to my marital status." So if you're married to a woman and you want the fact that you're married to confer on you the same category of shift in social status that you would have had if you had married a man, then you might want "Mrs. & Mrs." Or maybe your wife feels very differently about titles than you do and you might also need "Ms. & Mrs." Also following the model here, you might also need "Mrs. & Ms." as they have both "Mr. & Dr." and "Dr. & Mr."

I'm also troubled by the lack of any way for an intersex-identified individual, who is not also a Dr., Judge, or relegiously identified person, to make a selection. But I'm not sure how they would go about doing that.

[pne]

And no "Prof."?

[miss_chance]

Oh, hey. That *is* weird. All the kidding about everything else aside, the absence "Prof." is just weird.

I know that in the U.S. "Prof." is a higher honorific than "Dr.," for non-medical practitioners. (So if one has a Doctorate, and then after some years becomes a Professor, one usually drops the "Dr."). I wonder if that is different in France? (MSF being a French organization).

[pne]

In Germany you can even have "Prof. Dr." - and, for that matter, "Prof. Dr. Dr."

I think that in the latter case, one of the "Dr." indicates that the person is a medical doctor while the other means that the person has a[nother] doctorate.

[pne]

And they have "Dr. & Mr." and "Mr. & Dr." as well as "Mr. & Mrs." - but not "Mrs. & Mr.".