Would your partner be familiar with the term Ms?

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Dd came home from school with news of who her teacher will be for next year and when she told DH he said oh Mrs Brown, she sounds great. DD then corrected him and said it's not Mrs Brown, it's Ms Brown as this is obviously what they'd been told in school. DH was very confused, was it Miss or Mrs? He had never heard of the term Ms before and had no idea what it meant. Would your partner have known this?

He wasn't belittling the term or disrespecting women, because he genuinely wasn't aware of the term, he's not the sort to make that up.

Is you DH doing that annoying thing some unpleasant sexist men do, when they act like they have never heard of something so ridiculous when it is something they don't approve of? I cannot believe an adult male in the UK has never heard the term Ms, so he must be trying to make a point.

Yes of course.

He must be spectacularly unobservant. How many online forms has he unseeingly scrolled past it on?

Does your husband have problems with literacy? Because that is the only reason I can think of that would explain your husband never seeing the word Ms written down in the numerous forms where you are asked to click on your chosen title. Or is it that because he just always immediately goes to Mr, that he never notices the three options for women? So maybe just amazingly unobservant rather than poor reading skills.

Status titles? Like Mr and Mrs, do you mean?

I can't understand how anyone wouldn't be familiar with it

He's definitely not pretending he's never heard of it, that just wouldn't be the sort of thing he would do.

He can be quite unobservant in general day to day life, although he is extremely clever and has a great eye for detail in his job.

Of course your DH has heard of it. He is being misogynistic and implying a woman should be a Miss or a Mrs and not go by a title she chooses for whatever reason.

Yes my DH does because I'm a Ms.

Well, he's learned something new. Good for him. Every day's a school day.

He might also wish to reassess his 'great eye for detail', as he is seemingly unaware of something that at least 99.9% of the population have been aware of for decades.

Has he been living under a rock? Never filled in a form with a drop down box? I really can't believe that someone with "good eye for detail" could have missed something so ubiquitous