Nothing is wrong with the term. The problem is that the industry wants to call what was previously referred to as “auction leagues” as “salary cap leagues” - but “salary cap leagues” were already a thing, and are much different than auction leagues. Salary cap leagues are far less common these days, outside of DFS (Daily Fantasy Sports).
Note that the real estate board in Toronto just decided to make this change but the Houston Board of Realtors made the same decision last summer, and I don’t think of Houston, Texas as a hotbed of political correctness.
I misread your post. Sorry about that.
I really think we need to stop seeing EVERYTHING through the lens of slavery. The word master was in common usage for head of household pretty much everywhere they spoke English from before slavery was a big thing. Mistress meant the woman of the house.
Slavery has been a big thing since before anyone spoke English.
Yes, you are right of course. But it wasn’t a big thing in England when the word master came to be used. Unless you consider feudalism slavery.
Well…
Actually, leaving that aside, even “normal” slavery was very much a “big thing” in England when the word master (or its immediate predecessors) was first used.
In the Domesday census, 10% of the population were slaves.
Thralls, which are serfs, which is not what most Americans think when they think of slavery. We think “chattel slavery.”
(I agree, and know, and think that we do not spend enough time talking about the total history of slavery - from Egypt and Rome (and prehistory before that) to indentured servants and Russian serfs through the Holocaust to Chinese prison labor in 2021 - and countless others - its a huge topic encompassing all of human history and every corner of the world).
So it’s where you stash your, uh, auxillary wife?
Thralls are not serfs, despite what my own cite says. The crucial difference being that thralls could, and were, sold independent of any land. I don’t see a difference between that and US chattel slavery.
Change “master suite” to “ big ass bedroom with attached bathroom”
Organized legal chattel slavery ended well over a hundred years ago.
What about my MasterCard? Uh-oh. PrimaryCard? Oh really?
And those classic rock and jazz albums getting digitally… Rebased?
What if the house has a dumbwaiter. That’s “muteserver” now, buddy!
And I’m pretty sure I know the answer, but what about terms like “male” and “female” for plug couplings? I assume Certain People would complain about that just out of prurience, much less concern for sexism (after all there is no indication that a “male” plug is in any way superior to a “female” plug other than the fact that it has the sticking-out bit that joins with a snap into the sticking-in end of the other cable), but cannot recall an alternative designation.
Just like with master bedroom, you will have to use your own imagination.
Are we just going to have these weekly versions of the same hacky “can I still say X hur hur hur hur?” posts now?
I don’t see it as an issue.
But, playing along. . .the US Navy’s going to have a hell of a time updating their USNO Master Clock.
I’ve also overnighted at a friend’s place in their “Bonus Room” (bedroom framed, rocked, painted, and furnished over a framed garage.) It’s offensive to me, because I want a garage, but don’t have that bonus.
Tripler
I should have a “bonus primary mistress bedroom!”
Yes. It seems to be one of the purposes of the thread, right? To try to post the silliest or most “ridiculous” examples.
I’ve also heard “principle bedroom.” Is that better???
No, Master Cylinder is a character on the Felix the Cat cartoon show.
Principal bedroom might be even better.