I just got finished rereading Gone With the Wind and my question is whats is the male equivalent of mistress?

Question

call me silly but I've always wanted to know

ok people its not mister and im pretty sure it isn't master and im talking about the civil war era not this day and time

im not asking this questions in the context of "head of household" im asking under the context of the male equivalent of mistress(lover) that is relevant to civil war era ....and i don't believe im familiar with gone with the wind having a sequel

Answer 1

I can't believe people are trying to say the correct answer to this question is "mister." There isn't really an exact equivalent for "mistress" the best you can do is use a generic term like lover or paramour as other answers have suggested.

Here is an interesting excerpt about the disparity between such terms applying to women and men:
English has no shortage of terms for women whose behavior is viewed as licentious, but it is difficult to come up with a list of comparable terms used of men. One researcher, Julia Penelope, stopped counting after she reached 220 such labels for women, both current and historical, but managed to locate only 20 names for promiscuous men. Murial R. Schultz found more than 500 slang terms for prostitute but could find just 65 for the male terms whoremonger and pimp. A further imbalance appears in the connotations of many of these terms. While the terms applying only to women, like tramp and slut, are almost always strongly negative, corresponding terms used for men, such as stud and Casanova, often carry positive associations.·Curiously, many of the negative terms used for women derive from words that once had neutral or even positive associations. For instance, the word mistress, now mainly used to refer to a woman who is involved in an extramarital sexual relationship, originally served simply as a neutral counterpart to mister or master. The term madam, while still a respectful form of address, has had sexual connotations since the early 1700s and has been used to refer to the owner of a brothel since the early 1900s.

Answer 2

A mistress, in the GWTW era, was a woman whose male lover supported her household financially. The reverse situation would have been VERY unusual. If the participants were French, they might have called the man "l'ami de coeur" or friend-of-the-heart. I suspect the situation would have been an anomaly so rare that it didn't have a name, though. More than likely, the rich lady would have married the penniless male and made a respectable gentleman out of him, and then he'd have been called her...husband.

Answer 3

Well, no matter what context you were asking about, several smart people answered correctly. If you meant a title, servants called the man of house "master".
But my main point is to congratulate you on actually reading the book. Too many people claim to know all about "Gone With the Wind", but that is only from the movie, which as you now know is only loosely based on the book. I hope now you will read the sequel. It is very good, also.

Answer 4

we will in case you want to get the most insane feeling of your existence some it out of a bong. that's plenty smoother so that you received't cough as a lot and the sensation is loopy compared to a joint or pipe. once you do it make sensible you're with some acquaintances, were given some good munchies, were given some netflix, and a mushy spot and that's actually the ideal difficulty in the international. I earn you once you do it you'll sense extremely weird and wonderful like out of this international. you sense tall or perhaps as i changed into observing a movie you truly chortle at each thing. Me and my chum continually get a similar feeling. after we are observing a movie we both theory for sensible we've said that action picture before and we theory we new what changed into going to take position next notwithstanding the subsequent day I watched it back and it changed into completely diverse. even as your intense it feels so a lot more beneficial exciting. in the adventure that your not panicking ( have self assurance me do not i did the first time and freaked out) that's the ideal difficulty in the international.

Answer 5

Master

Answer 6

I started to say a boy toy. It isn't a matress, so it must be a Keeper or a Sugar Daddy. We call little boys Master, as we call little girls Miss. But I've read that the man who has a mistress pays her bills and rent for exclusive use of her favors. Sounds so old fashioned, but it still happens, beautiful girl, rich married man or very rich old man.

Answer 7

The male equivalent of mistress is master.

Answer 8

Master.

Answer 9

I'd think it would be "lover," if you mean mistress in the sense of an affair.
If you mean mistress as the woman in charge of servants, then it would be "master."

Answer 10

Lover!