Miss Manners explained it Wednesday in her syndicated newspaper column. For god’s sake, man, how much more official can it get?
Dear Miss Manners:
What do you think about Sen. Barbara Boxer being addressed as “ma’am” rather than as “Senator” by a U.S. brigadier general during a Senate hearing? Was this really a breach of protocol?
Let us not go looking for insults — or assume stupidity, which it would be for anyone to insult a senator at a senatorial hearing.
Miss Manners assures you that “ma’am” is, like its masculine equivalent, “sir,” a highly respectful form suitable for addressing any female, including a president, a monarch and your own mother.
Just one thing, Miss Manners. Leave our mothers out of this. They worked very hard to earn that title.
Source: Washington Post
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How come the official form of address is “The Honorable” when very few are?
She worked so hard to get that title. Oh jeeez, I am sure she just worked herself half to death to get that thankless job. har har. And I am also sure that becoming a Brigadier General is just a cake walk to get that star on the shoulder.
Ray, “The Honorable” title is supposed to apply to elected officials. It’s a presumption that he or she who is elected is an honorable person because he or she is judged by the people (the electorate) to be honorable. I know, I know, few are, but that’s the origin.