A mistress is now a friend if you use the AP stylebook

The Berkeley Independent ^ | May 5, 2021 | Julie Smith

[GaryCrow]

Sounds like Miss Stankyho has been busy.

[SamAdams76]

“The president will make an announcement tomorrow, after eating his Wheaties.”

Bruce Jenner is now president?

[DoodleBob]

Friend

[PLMerite]

I believe a euphemism from the past was “great and good friend.”

[nickcarraway]

I don’t think ML was a mistress. She was never promoted to that.

[sauropod]

Yeah, unfortunately, where I work has adopted the @$$ Press style guide.

I try to ignore it.

[familyop]

"How many divorce actions, filed for the cause of adultery, will use those terms?"

None should. It's odd, that so many people don't know what adultery really is according to the Bible.

[Bonemaker]

Eat me.

[TonyinLA]

The Associated Press Stylebook, aka the Bible of journalism, has decreed that the word “mistress” shall no longer be used by journalists because “it implies the woman is solely responsible for the affair.”

That’s because that’s the way it is. The woman controls access to her nether regions. It is the woman, and always the woman, that grants that access to allow the affair to occur. [No, not rape, dumba** feminists. The article is about consensual betrayal of the marriage commitment].

Men are driven by their own biology to reproduce as often as possible; we never even lose the ability to sire [assuming the other stuff is also normally functioning]. There is no “Man”-opause. We are much less capable of reigning in the reproductive impulse due to our genetics and irrespective of a man’s conscious ‘awareness’ of those instincts.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Sell it to my wife first, then I’ll try it.

[Bonemaker]

“A mistress is now a friend...”

That line doesn’t work with my wife for some reason!😎

[nickcarraway]

Men are driven by their own biology to reproduce as often as possible

Why is the birth rate at an all-time low?

[tet68]

“The president will make an announcement tomorrow, after
he remembers his name.”

[TonyinLA]

Didn’t say the impulse to engage in the act corresponds to increased reproduction. Take away birth control measures, then see what happens!

And you still have to be born with a pair, which in evaluating many [but not all thank God] my daughters’ male friends, is questionable at best. But I think that’s attributable to upbringing and widespread consumption of electronic diversions.

[wildcard_redneck]

Corporate HR departments have ruined everything and now their thinking is bleeding into the news articles.

[wildcard_redneck]

- Men are driven by their own biology to reproduce as often as possible; we never even lose the ability to sire [assuming the other stuff is also normally functioning]. There is no “Man”-opause. We are much less capable of reigning in the reproductive impulse due to our genetics and irrespective of a man's conscious ‘awareness’ of those instincts.

When my feminist daughters go off about men I just reply that "We men are what women made us to be. All the men who were not horny enough to fight for a "place in the line" and then put up with their crap died out long ago."

[rfp1234]

Double plus ungood.

[grey_whiskers]

I don’t think ML was a mistress. She was never promoted to that.

There was no missed-dress.

/runs for exit, ducking for cover>

[nickcarraway]

And what do they say?