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Once a connotation, always a connotation in a mindset that believes structural inequalities are socialized into us through the magic of language.
*unnecessary sensitivity intensifies*
What's really fascinating here is that the implied racist connotation to "master bedroom" is believable but not even likely to be accurate. That won't matter. If something *can be construed* to uphold systems of power (through language), that is enough. https://www.trelora.com/blog/2018/07/master-bedroom-origin/
This is the heart of problematization: it isn't just finding real problematics; it's also identifying imaginary ones through the ways that words are understood under multiple meanings. This is quintessential critical postmodernist bullshit. https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-problematize/
The second you realize that you literally don't have to know what you're talking about to problematize, and in some ways it's better if you don't (going viral for being wrong spreads your idea like crazy), you'll understand why Critical Social Justice is the wrong way to socjus.
