The term ‘master bedroom’ will no longer be used by dozens of estate agents in England due to its allusions to sexism and slavery. Agents across London and the south will ditch the term in order to appeal to younger, socially conscious buyers. They will instead be introduced to the ‘primary’ or ‘principal’ bedroom reported The Times. The term 'master bedroom' has been banned by dozens of estate agents because of its connotations of slavery and sexism, and instead will be introduced as the 'primary' or principle' bedroom (stock image)Twitter to stop using racially-charged programming terms like 'master' and 'blacklist' Twitter has phased out insensitive programming terms that reference slavery after a petition by employees. According to a report from CNET, engineers successfully convinced Twitter to nix the terms 'master' and 'slave' which are commonly used in programming language to describe the interaction between different processes.

Source: Daily Mail July 03, 2020 23:52 UTC