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I've experienced similar. Sure, words matter. But so does context, at least it should. And yet I bet those you make the suggestion still say "master bedroom" (

• b4ke 3y ago
  American home ownership is so loaded with plantation era subtle subjugation in the form of linguistic convention. If master bedroom were the worst it would get attention. I switched to originating new repos as main instead of master personally, reinforcing the concept of “commuting to” or code “being committed” to “master”, seems diametrically opposed to progress.
• sjfjsjdjwvwvc 3y ago
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• renewiltord 3y ago
  In San Francisco, when I was looking for a new place to rent in 2022, the realtor would use the phrase "primary bedroom" instead, remarking that apparently people in the field are moving away here from "master" because of the connotation. Personally, my favourite is this Github repo https://github.com/queer/boxxy https://github.com/queer/boxxy The primary branch is called "mistress". haha, that's good