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2021-04-16 -Great Cultural Revolution

'Mistress' becomes wokemeisters' latest target

[NYPOST] The News Agency that Dare Not be Named Stylebook, which has traditionally set standards for language usage within the media landscape, mystified Twitter users Tuesday when it tweeted a reality-bending, wrist-slapping admonishment.

"Don’t use the term mistress for a woman who is in a long-term sexual relationship with, and is financially supported by, a man who is married to someone else. Instead, use an alternative like companion, friend or lover on first reference and provide additional details later," the tweet read.
or "Vice President"
Of course, goomah is a much better term.
Or "popsie."
The announcement led many to wonder which mistress had taken control of the account, and what is truly wrong with the word mistress.

It also spurred a joke-fest with people tweeting alternatives to mistress, like "side piece" or "homewrecker."

NPR news hound Susan Davis tweeted: "His wife probably has some words she’d also like to use to describe her."

Author and mathematician James Lindsey wrote: "I call her whatever I want. You call her mom."

Cheeky college hoops commentary account @noescalators took the AP’s advice on word substitution, writing: "Rick Pitino and his ~~lover~~ companion got a brief tour of an Italian Restaurant," referring to the 2003 incident during which Pitino had sex with a woman on the table of a Louisville restaurant.

Obviously someone at AP is banging a married dude. Gross. https://t.co/mOrPEk6vbW
— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) April 14, 2021

Though it surfaced yesterday on social media, the AP Stylebook’s policy regarding the word mistress dates to 2016, when it said to avoid the word because there was no male equivalent.
... like "gigolo" or "boy toy" or something like that...
Then in 2020, the AP grew stronger in its woke feminist convictions, saying it was banning the word because it was "archaic and sexist."

"We now say not to use the archaic and sexist term ’mistress’ for a woman in a long-term sexual relationship with, and financially supported by, a man who is married to someone else. Instead, use an alternative like companion or lover on first reference."

That led to a round of skewering from media circles. It’s unclear what sparked this latest woke lecture — but mistresses everywhere must be thrilled at the opportunity to rebrand themselves in a more favorable light.

Posted by Fred 2021-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 O Mistress mine where are you roaming?
O stay and hear, your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low.
Trip no further pretty sweeting.
Journeys end in lovers' meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.

What is love, 'tis not hereafter,
Present mirth, hath present laughter:
What's to come, is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come kiss me sweet and twenty:
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-16 04:40|| 2021-04-16 04:40|| Front Page Top

#2 So are terms like Dynamo Humm out in the woke world too?