{"id":226922,"date":"2021-04-14T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mistress-becomes-woke-brigades-latest-target\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:23:09","slug":"mistress-becomes-woke-brigades-latest-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mistress-becomes-woke-brigades-latest-target\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Mistress\u2019 becomes woke brigade\u2019s latest target"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018Mistress\u2019 becomes woke brigade\u2019s latest target<\/strong>”
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The mistress is cracking the whip on language.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press Stylebook, which has traditionally set standards for language usage within the media landscape, mystified Twitter<\/a> users Tuesday when it tweeted a reality-bending, wrist-slapp<\/a>ing admonishment.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t 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,\u201d the tweet read.<\/p>\n

Of course, goomah is a much better term.<\/p>\n

The announcement led many to wonder which mistress had taken control of the account, and what is truly wrong with the word mistress.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

\u2014 APStylebook (@APStylebook) April 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

It also spurred a joke-fest with people tweeting alternatives to mistress, like \u201cside piece\u201d or \u201chomewrecker.\u201d<\/p>\n

NPR reporter Susan Davis tweeted: \u201cHis wife probably has some words she\u2019d also like to use to describe her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Author and mathematician James Lindsey wrote: \u201cI call her whatever I want. You call her mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cheeky college hoops commentary account @noescalators took the AP\u2019s advice on word substitution, writing: \u201cRick Pitino and his companion got a brief tour of an Italian Restaurant,\u201d referring to the 2003 incident during which Pitino had sex with a woman on the table of a Louisville restaurant. <\/p>\n

Though it surfaced yesterday on social media, the AP Stylebook\u2019s policy regarding the word mistress dates to 2016, when it said to avoid the word because there was no male equivalent<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Then in 2020, the AP grew stronger in its woke feminist convictions, saying it was banning the word because it was \u201carchaic and sexist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now say not to use the archaic and sexist term \u2018mistress\u2019\u00a0for 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.\u201d <\/p>\n

That led to a round of skewering from media circles<\/a>. It\u2019s unclear what sparked this latest woke lecture \u2014 but mistresses everywhere must be thrilled at the opportunity to rebrand themselves in a more favorable light.\n <\/div>\n