Wow, what a twist.

I'd say that doesn't really apply though because not only is consensual BDSM invisible as a minority classification, it actively tries to remain hidden in public. It is inappropriate to display such things to people who haven't consented to being shown them. That's why you don't wear a gimp suit to go grocery shopping, the other patrons haven't consented to being part of that scene. So if anything someone who engages in BDSM would be very much offended see master/slave used casually in a public setting.

You're displaying the words BDSM in public on this very forum to people who haven't consented to it. That's innapropriate and we have to create a policy that respects those who don't want to see that.

~My point is when you take entire words, regardless of their context and outlaw them you're inherently suppressing that words representation of groups that use it in different contexts. There is no reason to wholey remove the terms master and slave unless the words are wholey wrong to use, which would then mean that BDSM surely is as well. Either you take all of it as being wrong or accept that words have context.

This is the most patient comment I’ve ever seen and I applaud you for it!

Patient or not, it isn't true. Even in a small semi-rural town, I saw a dominant/submissive family at the grocery store where one of them wore pretty revealing clothing with a t-shirt that said she was "collared and loved". To me, they looked like a very happy, if unconventional, couple.

>> It is inappropriate to display such things [...]

Heh, "inappropriate" is such a slippery word.

I’m more concerned about my master degree

Or master copy, or master tradesman. All this "inclusive terminology" is really the puritanism of the 21st century.

I don't think anyone is proposing that the verb "to master" or noun "master" (original, or expert) is problematic.

It's only when used in the separate sense specifically opposite "slave".

There's no need to caricature or misrepresent the POV that you obviously disagree with here.

> I don't think anyone is proposing that the verb "to master" or noun "master" (original, or expert) is problematic.

you clearly missed https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1271253144442253312

You know... as soon as I wrote "I don't think anyone" I thought to myself... well surely some single individual somewhere probably actually has... and someone will find it for me.

So thanks. ;)

It is. Plenty of people are renaming the "master" branch in git to something else even though it has no relation to master/slave

Yeah - that's exactly like "master recording".

Countering slavery is hard. Let's go renaming!

Better not use a debit card with an 'oppressive' Mastercard logo on it. /s

Which means Monzo, Apple, Starling, N26 and Revolut are all 'complicit' with working with Mastercard to continue to oppress the offended. Time for a rename. /s

And what do we do with Master of Puppets?