I’m trying to think of a scenario in which it would be appropriate to call Dr. Jill Biden “kiddo.” Maybe if you were a long-dead relative of hers who has come back from the dead?
Maybe if you are one of her children, and you are teasing her in a playful but loving fashion? But if you’re some creepy old man writing an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal?
Definitely not. Unfortunately, both the WSJ and writer Joseph Epstein missed that memo. Thus was published a completely sexist piece of trash column that urged Dr.
Biden to act like a lady, damn it. “Madame First Lady — Mrs. Biden — Jill — kiddo,” Epstein begins. “Any chance you might drop the ‘Dr.’ before your name? ‘Dr.