This all is making my head hurt.
A couple of weeks ago we lost Illegal Immigrants.
Now we’re losing the Master Bedroom.
Homebuilders scrap ‘master bedroom’ because of racist, gender-biased connotations:
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).Enter the owner’s suite.“I imagine it’s not only a more accurate description but also a more politically correct term of art,” said Steve Nardella, senior vice president of operations for Bethesda-based Winchester Homes Inc.Either way, the “master suite” has been linguistically shoved aside.
Think it’s stupid?
Never underestimate the power of stupid.
Did you ever think they’d try to ban Illegal Immigrants, Black List, Chink in the Armor, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Rejigger, Black Friday, and even the use of white copy paper?
This language war is just gobbledygook, if you ask me. (Can I say that?)
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