And folks with Bachelor’s degrees should receive the title of Bachelor, so it would be Bachelor Jackson or Master Henderson, comparable to how PhD titles work. And I know folks will make some weird jokes about the term Master, but Master can be a neutral or professional term, like if you work as the help in an estate, you would address your boss as Master or when referencing someone who is a master in their field of study. Plus, Bachelor does not have to mean in an unmarried man. In this context, its origins have more to do with medieval knighthoods and guilds and eventually with university study, at least historically.
As to why I support this, I think it would be neat. Would add some much needed flare to our professional language.
EDIT:
- Magister has been proposed as an alternative to Master, which I think works better and has less erotic or negative historical connotations.
- I should clarify that I’m not referencing this in professional contexts, so like in an email signature, when introducing yourself in a professional setting, things like that. It’s similar to how PhDs are addressed now, with most of them not preferring to be addressed by their title at all. I imagine a similar thing would happen in this proposal. Even so, this is not how you would be addressed in like 95% of interactions.
- MBA-holders are excluded completely from this.
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Master is already a formal title, typically used for young males who are too young to be addressed as ‘Mr.’.
It’s pointless
Idk, most master degree people can’t find their way out of a wet paper bag using a map.
I have a masters degree and I would hate this lmao
Approximately 10 percent of Iran’s population are masters then.
On the side note I think this title should be kept for only the most accomplished individuals in any field.
Probably not a good idea to make people call people master bro
Yeah let’s not
ok buddy, no need to pretend you don’t like BDSM, we already understand that…
We need fewer titles, not more.
Sure, but only if I get to do it for a specific fields. I hold a PhD, and I’ll never address an MBA with a title other than “douchebag.”
Well, that’s how we call them where I live, except for uneducated and old people.
So by that logic would we refer to those of us with a 2yr degree “Associates”?
Yes, Master
Move to Austria. They do exactly this.
You have this degree, but we do not grant you the rank of Master.
In case this is not common knowledge, with a Ph.D. there is a legal aspect that goes with it (it is vague though). For example, your dissertation must be available to the public (not by rule but law-kind of), the supreme court has ruled on how the process (from dissertation proposal to defense) is allowed to take place. Your final defense must be open to the general public. There are others, my point is that would people with a Masters or Bachelors wish the public to have the amount of transparency necessary for this to be the case?
As somebody with a completely “useless”** master’s degree, I think this is a pretty silly notion.
** to most people. I have a master’s degree in musical performance.
I’ve been saying this for so long! That alone would make me go back and get my masters.
Nah
Sounds FREAKY 👅⛓️💦🫦🍆🍑🚬
Ayooo
I love this.
I do not have a Master’s, so my love isn’t for selfish reasons.
The idea of calling someone master is so uncomfortable to me. Like being obsequious to someone who actually has less education than I do.
I think there should be less titles, not more
4 year undergrads forever be called Bachelors would be weird
Upvoting as it would just be irritating having that many titles 😂
I’m thinking of starting a second master’s and would be slightly more likely to do so if I would be called Master Master
In the Czech republic if you have a masters degree (“magisterský titul”) you are a “magistr”. And some people use to to address me with along with “Ms.” (In Czech “paní magistro”).
Very unpopular. Even calling folks with a PhD doctor is pretty ridiculous outside of relevant contexts.
You know you’re right, MBAs are too humble. We should boost their egos a bit
Maybe that would help people feel better about going 200k into debt to “figure out what they wanna do”.
No one’s stopping you
The term is Magister
I’m getting a masters degree right now and I would feel so weirded out if someone called me “Master”
Wait so if I have my masters in non-lethal hunting. Can I call myself a master baiter?
I’ll see myself out
Upvoted for a legitimately unpopular opinion.
I have a bachelor’s degree, two master’s degrees, and a PhD. What should I be called? Bachelor Master Master Doctor? That’s… a mouthful.
Also, keep in mind that for many universities, even very prestigious ones, Master’s degrees are basically just a cash grab for the university. Master’s programs tend not to be especially rigorous, they churn through students who output a thesis that will almost certainly never be read by anyone again. They’re primarily a pay-to-get-a-degree program.
What about people with AA degrees: Associates? BA degrees: Bachelors? High school degrees: High?
Having a degree does not make you any better than anyone else.
Lol
As someone with a master’s degree, no.
Ah, Master Windu.
And if you flunked out of high school and got a GED, it would be General.
Also, does that mean I’d have to call my late grandmother Mistress of Education. Because I’d just as soon NOT do that.
Why not Meister? You can even switch order of the words around – Henderson Meister . Or if you have a buddy, bud Meister.
No.
A buddy has a PhD and will only allow people to call him doctor inside formal academic settings. Among friends he doesn’t like it – he’s like save it for someone who can write you a prescription.
No thank you. I’m not calling my brother that.
I’m already Mr. Manly R. Man.
The Master doesn’t fit.
The title “master” directly implies that someone is above others without the degree which is definitely not the case.
Dude, I don’t even use Dr irl. Most of my colleagues don’t, we are only called Drs in the clinic or in the academia. It’d be so obnoxious to use ALL of the titles all the time.
Sounds like some pretentious bs to me
No ☺️
Ok. And lawyers should be Dr.
Idk about other places but her a degree holder can add the title to their name like ” maggie smith, BA” (Bachelor of Arts) “peter johnson MSc” (Master of Science)
And a more old title masters can use is Drs. Meaning Doctorandus.
So doctorandus williams or drs. Williams
Poor guy gets a masters but his last name Bader.
Why the need for a pedestal? Isn’t the knowledge enough of a reward in itself. I really don’t understand how fragile someone’s ego has to be to need a “title”
I think it requires significantly more effort to get a PhD, and being a Bachelor or Master is not such an accomplishment after all, at least in terms of science impact. So there is no need to empathize it with a fancy term
One of my grandmothers insisted on being called Dr. (she was a professor) as a general matter of principle. She didn’t care for it when I tested out Dr. Grandma.
They changed the names of the master bathroom and master bedroom because of racial connotations. I am sure this will go over like a lead balloon!
Cool idea.
As an MBA holder, I agree. We suck.
Master of [insert degree here]. Sounds dope
This has to be bait.
OP is truly, a Master baiter.
Let’s bring back Esquire.
How’s get fucked sound? They are no master just because they study for too long.
My wife is a doctor and ever since I got my masters I jokingly refer to myself as Master.
Guys I don’t mean to alarm you. But we should call this guy master. Last time we didn’t…. some bad things happened….
You can’t do that anymore, now you should be called main
Why are MBAs excluded in your world ? It’s a Master’s degree.
Sho nuff
I have two masters though I want to be called masters
I definitely prefer magister.
All bdsm and historical connotations aside, “Master” can be used for a little boy and I am not that, either.
Not that I have a masters degree. I do, however, have a bachelors degree. Would I be a Bachelorette?
Meh… I don’t need the title to make myself feel better about myself.
Although, I wouldn’t object if I were called Maestro by my ensemble rather than mister.
How about we just stop the title thing altogether instead? The only doctor I call doctor is my doctor when in a doctors office. If you’re a brain surgeon but you’re not my doctor, I’m calling you Phil, because that’s your name. Not Dr. McNugget. Phil.
They already do this in Austria
So
MSc [Name]
I like it
Master is the title for a young male child. The title is already reserved.
I work in Academia as a staff member. When dealing with faculty, as long as its not in a professional setting or in the presence of students, I address the professors as Jon instead of Dr. Doe.
Shortly after a new professor joined our department he entered my office. I greeted him with “Good morning, Joe.”.
He proceeded to demand that I use his professional title and call him “Dr. Doe.”
I responded with “are you serious?”
“Absolutely. I worked very hard for that title and I expect you show me the respect I deserve.”
“Very well. In that case, I will then expect you to refer me to as “Master Jones”. I worked very hard for that title as well.”
“Jon will be fine.”
That’s what I thought!!!!
🤣 yeah as a black guy, I’m not calling anyone master
There’s only one Master, and his name is Sho Nuff
I think the only reason we do that with Dr is not because of PHDs themselves, but the dissertation as a whole. Your dissertation is like your magnum opus of your education. Your 300 page paper on Malaria or your 30 minute orchestral piece. Master and Bachelor degrees don’t require that and also require less schooling and are “easier” to achieve. You’d basically be calling everyone Bachelor or Master except for people in trades
Nice try, Mace Windu!
It would be “magister”. Master, as a title, implies an unmarried adult man, which is totally different.
My unpopular opinion is the opposite, addressing people based on their academic degree is ridiculous and the stronger a society enforces/expects/allows this, the more they still have ties with society class/caste systems of hierarchy.
I have a Master of Divinity. Do I get to be Divine Master?
What if my master’s degree is about fish bait?
I have a masters degree and I really want to be called The Master going forward. I’m going to put it on DoorDash as step 1.
I prefer Meister
Would be awkward if your last name was Bates
Okay, but do those of us with bachelors degrees get called “The Bachelor”?
Maybe twenty years ago. The perception and value of what a these degrees hold has fallen so drastically and for good reason.
Hell no. A master of something is somebody who displays mastery over something.
I have two bachelors, a masters degree, and black belts in two arts. And if someone called me Master, I’d still think it was a sex bondage kink.
If this were the case I’d prob go get my masters
Yeah that’s a no from me
Except Master is already a title, I means an unwed man. Just like how Miss means an unwed woman.
I’ve got a masters from a polytechnic. I’m happy enough walking round East London where everyone calls me guv’nor
This has to be the dumbest post I’ve seen on this sub
What if we like the erotic connotations?