I am on deadline for one of the most important articles I’ve ever written, so I have, of course, made veal bolognese, smoked a rack of beef ribs and baked a weed-infused Bundt cake in the past 24 hours.
Don't use the term mistress for a woman who is in a long-term sexual relationship with, and is financially supported by, a man who is married to someone else. Instead, use an alternative like companion, friend or lover on first reference and provide additional details later.
I think the thing about hearing that a non-Asian magazine editor once tweeted “Now googling how to not wake up with swollen, asian eyes…” is that you might not fully realize the pain behind that unless you were an Asian American who grew up up reading teen and women's magazines