Why have Master pages in InDesign been renamed to Parent pages?

This is wonderful; but what about those who had parents who were oppressive and/or abusive? Aren't you making children of said parents unwelcome? Or those without parents - are you flaunting your parent-privelege?  Your software, your naming, but I think your thought process is certainly not continuously applied.

I don't like a games with a words. Parent can be not so good word here too (Child-to-parent violence as example of these strange word-games). Master for me is an ace (Master of arts, head of college, etc). English for me isn't native. But I wasn't seen applying master as pain word for some racism things whole my life. Here my opinion - Adobe isn't right with changing old known interface word. This is only my opinion as non-English native speaker.  

On other hand we are here for help each other, not for dousing with water Adobe decision or talking about "racist, sexist, oppressive connotations, overtones". Open on indesign.uservoice.com feature request about changing back Master pages if you so wanna do this. 

Thread is closed. 

My two cents on this, doing such changes gives way more publicity to the negative aspects of whatever it is that is being avoided and defeats the purpose totally. The problem was never the words but the wrong use of them, rather than fixing the problem, educating people to respect others and be empathetic, what the organisations and so called leaders do is go on a rampage of changing the vocabulary of things that mean whole lot of other things in addition to the negative aspect. For me such cases are a perfect example of misplaced priorities. We are trying to herald a world which will have all the vices that we want to avoid but will add a new burden on the common folks to think through what words to use in a freewheeling coversation as you never know you unknowingly may use a banned world and people get offended(many for the sake of it without understanding the backdrop or context of the use).

-Manan

This is the most pathetic, ridiculous thing I have ever read! If you look up the meaning of 'Master' as an adjective it means 'main or principal'. It's always been master pages and noone even thinks of it in a slavery kind of way.

Hi!

First of all, I'm not InDesign user, but Photoshop and Bridge where I'm focused on scripting.

Few days ago I met this information in other thread as well as sole 'diversity and inclusion' term. Since last days I tried to dispute over this change with other people in closed circle with no success, today I started looking more what it's all exactly about. By 'googling' I finished in this topic. As you are an emplyee sharing this annoucement I believe you are in power to reliably answer to my questions. Actually there are many, but I shrink them only to that what I assume is most important now.

From that I understand the 'Master' word (replaced by Parent) is from now on too oppresive to other people because of occurances in History. As I'm non-english person I can only guess it's about the times in US when about 150 - 200 years ago white people enslaved Africans in own country to use as servants / workers. How ever people from those times passed away so rather using 'Master' can't traumatize anyone, it is still unnice due to historical associations. And here's my question:

Since the Terms of Use state to be kind and respectful to other participants of forum, will be using Master word considered as unwelcome word we can no longer use in any context, even for Parent page, if formerly many InDesign community members have gotten used to this name? Basicly, if that's non-inclusive and though used without such intention may still contain negative overtone for some users, shall they been reprimanded or maybe reported for inappropriate language?

There are really not many informations in your post and on InDesign pages, just short general hint, all the more given without any previous officially presented information. I'm asking also as confused ACP to get to know present standards how to approach to people using in their language this word.

Thank you for the clarification, and by the way I would appreciate if you could send me to some page with list of similar hurting words that we should avoid to use on this forum, and which ones shortly may be formally restricted.