> That's the beauty of identity politics. No matter what you say, you are always going to encroach on someone's identity. > Whoever promoted it, was a machiave

> That's the beauty of identity politics. No matter what you say, you are always going to encroach on someone's identity. > Whoever promoted it, was a machiavellian genius. People can't rebel if they keep each other in check. That is exactly what I wanted to say too but you said it better. I'd point out that there are possible hundreds if not thousand other software that use the terminology. It doesn't offend me at all. $> man -k slave grantpt (3) - grant access to the slave pseudoterminal grantpt (3p) - grant access to the slave pseudo-terminal device jack_netsource (1) - Netjack Master client for one slave kdeinit5 (8) - Launcher for applications built with kdeinit support, ... ptmx (4) - pseudoterminal master and slave pts (4) - pseudoterminal master and slave ptsname (3) - get the name of the slave pseudoterminal ptsname (3p) - get name of the slave pseudo-terminal device ptsname_r (3) - get the name of the slave pseudoterminal Tcl_CreateSlave (3) - manage multiple Tcl interpreters, aliases and hidden c... Tcl_GetSlave (3) - manage multiple Tcl interpreters, aliases and hidden c... unlockpt (3) - unlock a pseudoterminal master/slave pair unlockpt (3p) - unlock a pseudo-terminal master/slave pair $> man -k master agentxtrap (1) - send an AgentX NotifyPDU to an AgentX master agent getpt (3) - open the pseudoterminal master (PTM) gnutls_session_ext_master_secret_status (3) - API function gnutls_session_get_master_secret (3) - API function gnutls_session_set_premaster (3) - API function jack_netsource (1) - Netjack Master client for one slave mmafm (1) - creates AFM font metrics for multiple master fonts mmpfb (1) - creates single-master fonts from multiple master fonts ptmx (4) - pseudoterminal master and slave pts (4) - pseudoterminal master and slave pulseaudio-ctl (1) - Control pulseaudio's basic functions such as the maste... RAND_DRBG_get0_master (3ssl) - get access to the global RAND_DRBG instances SSL_get_client_random (3ssl) - get internal TLS/SSL random values and get/set... SSL_get_extms_support (3ssl) - extended master secret support SSL_get_server_random (3ssl) - get internal TLS/SSL random values and get/set... SSL_SESSION_get_master_key (3ssl) - get internal TLS/SSL random values and ge... SSL_SESSION_set1_master_key (3ssl) - get internal TLS/SSL random values and g... Tcl_GetMaster (3) - manage multiple Tcl interpreters, aliases and hidden c... Tk_GetImageMasterData (3) - define new kind of image unlockpt (3) - unlock a pseudoterminal master/slave pair unlockpt (3p) - unlock a pseudo-terminal master/slave pair WildMidi_MasterVolume (3) - sets the overall audio level of the library. xapian-replicate (1) - Replicate a database from a master server to a local copy