Posted on 04/18/2013 5:57:19 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes
The “master suite” is being phased out — not from our homes, but from our lexicon.
A survey of 10 major Washington, D.C.-area homebuilders found that six no longer use the term “master” in their floor plans to describe the largest bedroom in the house. They have replaced it with “owner’s suite” or “owner’s bedroom” or, in one case, “mastre bedroom.”
Why? In large part for exactly the reason you would think: “Master” has connotation problems, in gender (it skews toward male) and race (the slave-master).
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...Will ownerbating make me go blind?...
No but overownerbating will.
If they tried to foist that newspeak garbage on me, I would be compelled to introduce them to two more words: You're fired.
mega dittos
Homosexuals should not be called gay. Gay refers to happy people. They should be called by their real name. Queers. Cause they are queer people.
Sure hope I have not offended anyone.
I really don’t need to hear about your ownernistic pursuits...
not offended me at all and if anyone is then they need to have a word to themselves , they’re never gay and like you said it means to be happy.
The left chose a positive word and used it for this agenda like they for so many of their agendas
We have a NAPA store and we cant even call gasket sealer Gorilla snot anymore
Beam me up Scottie!
Master is always male.
Mistress is female.
Hard drives:
MASTER
SLAVE
It is what it is.
Similarly we’re discouraged from using master and slave when talking about circuit components.
I heard Erick Ericson talking about this on WSB tonight while driving to a GOP meeting. Just absolutely absurd.
Aye, anyone who pays property taxes is just a renter....to the government.
it never even ONCE occurred to me that the “master” in master bedroom referred to a slave master!!
male/female vs men/women
plants are male/female
fish are male/female
electrical connections are male/female
people are men and women
just a simple insistence on clear language can drive liberals moonbat crazy
What’s the problem? It’s not the Massa bedroom.
Master mechanic
Master chef
Master’s degree
Master of the hounds
MasterCard
What will we call them from now on?
i am the master of my domain
As if “mancave” is any better. Not because it makes the man sound dominant. On the contrary, he’s been relegated to having one indoor room to put “his junk” in.
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