A recent post on twitter highlighted that some random dude writing in the Wall Street Journal decided to attack the wife of Joe Biden (The WSJ is the US equivalent of The Financial Times):-
twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1337804907177512962
This is a real paragraph – written by Joseph Epstein – that was published in the Wall Street Journal:-
Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if You Need an M.D.
Jill Biden should think about dropping the honorific, which feels fraudulent, even comic.
Madame First Lady - Mrs. Biden - Jill - kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter. Any chance you might drop the "Dr." before your name? "Dr. Jill Biden" sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic. Your degree is, I believe, an Ed.D., a doctor of education, earned at the University of Delaware through a dissertation with the unpromising title "Student Retention at the Community College Level: Meeting Students' Needs." A wise man once said that no one should call himslef "Dr." unless he had delivered a child. Think about it, Dr. Jill, and forthwith drop the doc.
I was just felt literally gobsmacked by that sort of condescension in a newspaper with the reputation of the Wall Street Journal.
It turns out that I wasn't the only person that thought that either. There were many people who responded just how you would expect, for example:-
twitter.com/jrpsaki/status/1337929492363407370
You are not alone if today is the first day you googled “Joseph Epstein” because you were curious who popped out of a 1950’s time warp to write the below for the WSJ
twitter.com/Chasten/status/1337776851423551489
The author could’ve used fewer words to just say “ya know in my day we didn’t have to respect women.”
twitter.com/DouglasEmhoff/status/1337848812610568193
Dr. Biden earned her degrees through hard work and pure grit. She is an inspiration to me, to her students, and to Americans across this country. This story would never have been written about a man.
But I think the best response came from the twitter account of Merriam-Webster (they are the US equivalent of the OED - the Oxford English Dictionary). Without making any reference to the Wall Street Journal article at all they simply put this out a few hours later:-
twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/1337841415116763138
The word 'doctor' comes from the Latin word for "teacher."
The History of 'Doctor' - Just who qualifies as a doctor anyway?
Not surprisingly, people picked up on this quite quickly, for example:-
When Merriam Webster trolls WSJ....
When the dictionary has the shadiest subtweets on the web. 
The pure devastation you must feel when the dictionary itself steps up to destroy your credibility..
While this may appear just a storm in a teacup, it is really quite staggering that attitudes like this can still be printed in opinion pieces in serious newspapers.