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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums'Would you rather have a house full of old masters or old mistresses?' Days of women's liberation
Illustration of how every term used for women, even most positive, becomes over time a term to reduce them to a 'just a' sex object.
Originally 'mistress's was the female equivalent of 'master'
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'Would you rather have a house full of old masters or old mistresses?' Days of women's liberation (Original Post)
bobbieinok
Nov 2019
OP
In today's vernacular, the term mistress is used for a woman in an extramarital relationship...
dlk
Nov 2019
#2
I really wish people would slow down a little before bringing sexism into things...
TreasonousBastard
Nov 2019
#3
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)1. Is a mistress in the affair sense "just a sex object" though?
Frankly that seems a bit sexist.
dlk
(11,509 posts)2. In today's vernacular, the term mistress is used for a woman in an extramarital relationship...
usually with a married man and has become a pejorative.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)3. I really wish people would slow down a little before bringing sexism into things...
Like sex.
Yes, mistress can be used as a pejorative, but I have known a number of women who prefer married men for their affairs. Mistress to them is more of a bragging point.
Context is everything.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)4. It takes two to tango.
Any woman dating a married man should know what she is in for, going into the relationship.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)5. My childhood town had a post mistress
Context is everything.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)6. What did she become after she was a "mistress?"...
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)7. She was a post mistress with pre-diabetes and a large posterior.
There's a country western song in that.