I'm 55 years old and never thought about that, because the link never occurred to me.

But when Mrs first stood for Mistress, the word Mistress wasn't "loaded" at all.

I always thought that it was Mrs. = missus, Ms. = miz, at least that’s how I would say them, but I now realize that a) that’s plainly incorrect and b) I’ve never actually ever seen them non-abbreviated.

If an abbreviation is never expanded, is it still an abbreviation? Personally I think it isn’t; I advocate for condensing i.e./e.g. to simply ie and eg, though this is a minority opinion.

I think Mistress is primarily used in erotica or fetish communities.

I never knew Mrs. stood for "mistress", I always thought it just came from "Mr's", as in, the wife of some mister

> "Mistress" is a loaded word

Only in English.