Real Estate Agents and Builders to stop using the terms “master bedroom” and “master bathroom”

AARPSaint said

Maybe these police free zones are an example of "going too far."

I am also not certain that "Master Bedroom" ever referred to a master-slave relationship, but I can see that it could be interpreted that way. To me, however, a MBR means a bedroom with a bathroom accessible only from the bedroom, nothing more, nothing less. To be sure, "a bedroom with a bathroom accessible only from that bedroom" is a bit unwieldy, so it desperately needs a more succinct term. Presumably, the term "Master Bedroom" was settled on some years ago. Maybe it's time to revisit that terminology, but I have no good suggestions . Bedroom/bathroom combo? IDK.

I find this to be a rather fatuous dispute, but maybe I am looking at it from too white a perspective.

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I've never heard a black man/woman complain to me about it. I have a good black friend who also is a realtor and he helped me buy/sell a house in DC over 10 years ago. He still calls it master bedroom and he and I never brought it up as something worth discussing.

That said, as FTP outlined well, let's examine what it is, and if it's something, adjust, if it's nothing, let's move on to the next thing.

Ultimately, nothing may come of this. But there are probably other small stuff deserving more scrutiny. Such as the cakewalk term gmr talked about in another thread. I'd never heard the story about cakewalks, so, now that I'm aware of it, I adjust accordingly. It's gonna take a while for me to get on the same page with black culture because I'm a novice in that area.