> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 1:33 PM Cuddle Beam wrote: > > > > I was reading the ruleset and found that Master is a masculine noun. > > Mistress is the feminine version. A quick google search of the definition > > of master brought up this too: > > > > noun > > 1. a man who has people working for him, especially servants or slaves. > > 2. a man in charge of an organization or group. > > > > - > > - > > - > > - > > > > > > “A man”. > > > > Maybe we should change it to something more gender-inclusive? > > > > I personally really don’t care much but I thought that I’d bring attention > > to this because of the big efforts I perceive here to keep gender > > neutrality (Spivak, etc). Up to you guys.
To consider is that there's (of course) a pun going on here, "master" (noun) as in "head of servants/slaves" and "master" (adjective) in "master switch", which means "main, principal" according to that same google definition.
