Totally random thought. The feminists of the 60s and 70s agitated for all sorts of name modifications. The only change that stuck was a less automatic adoption of the husband’s surname after marriage. The other tricks like Friedperson or Watchild never caught on.
Feminists never fought for the “right” to be Junior or III or IV. Those suffixes are ALMOST exclusively male. There was only one well-known exception, Socialite Cobina Wright Junior. She was a Socialite, famous for being famous. The title of Socialite was like Doctor or Reverend, always attached to the name.
I guess the answer is that nobody wants to be a Junior or a III. It’s a dubious honor.
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Later, remembered a couple other permanently attached titles. Ed Sullivan often featured jazz musician Acker Bilk. Sullivan ALWAYS introduced him as BeardedClarinetistAckerBilk. More recently the idiot commentators at The Hill were required to say FormerPresidentTrump … until he was elected again, when he became FormerPresidentTrumpOrRatherPresidentElectTrump. If Bilk had shaved, would he become BeardedClarinetistAckerBilkOrRatherCleanShavenClarinetistAckerBilk?
More seriously, I suppose Sullivan wanted to clarify that Bilk was Bearded because he was a Weirdo Jazz Musician, not because he was a Red Soviet Commie Pinko Prevertor Of Our Vital Bodily Fluids. Our secret FBI Decoder Rings assured us that a beard had only one possible meaning.
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