I know this is only going to bother me but the Second Lady is called the Second Lady because there’s a First Lady (the wife of the president.) if there’s no First Gentleman it shouldn’t need to be a Second Gentleman.
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Replying to @baddestmamajama
Well, no, it means Joe Biden himself is the First Gentleman (along with being the President), right? Technically "First Lady" is about the "order of precedence" thing they do when seating people at formal events, where if you have no rank yourself you inherit your spouse's
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Replying to @arthur_affect @baddestmamajama
If the First Lady held an elected or appointed office in her own right you would call her that instead (Senator, Congressman, Director, etc) The "First Lady" thing is a placeholder title, the indication she holds the social rank without a corresponding office
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Replying to @arthur_affect @baddestmamajama
To be fair, First Lady doesn't actually mean the President's wife, it means the person who serves as the hostess for presidential events Someone else can do that job and be the highest ranking woman in the room, but usually only if the wife is unable to do it (or doesn't exist)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @baddestmamajama
Like if, say, the President's wife actually hates him and the job and everything about D.C., so he has his daughter assume many of the official functions of the First Lady. Like, hypothetically.
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There was one bachelor president, and I believe he had a cousin or a niece who served as First Lady in the social/hostess sense.
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That was James Buchanan, although there've been several other times where the president was a widower (Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson)
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