Warning: Don't call me honey, not even if you are just being pleasant in the Starbucks line.
"Honey" dropping leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. When I was a young woman, that word was patronizing and condescending on a man's lips. Older women used it to address our generation as if we were still children.
To me, the word is dismissive rather than demonstrative with one exception. The love of my life called me honey and that was music to my ears.
Now that I'm older, I've found that many young women call me honey,
sweetie and other things I abhored when I was their age. Total strangers spouting terms of endearment will always irk me, but I don't erupt like a volcano these days. I just take a big sip of my latte and drive away.
— Suztek
"Honey" dropping leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. When I was a young woman, that word was patronizing and condescending on a man's lips. Older women used it to address our generation as if we were still children.
To me, the word is dismissive rather than demonstrative with one exception. The love of my life called me honey and that was music to my ears.
Now that I'm older, I've found that many young women call me honey,
sweetie and other things I abhored when I was their age. Total strangers spouting terms of endearment will always irk me, but I don't erupt like a volcano these days. I just take a big sip of my latte and drive away.
— Suztek
Yeah. I get you on this. Except ... there are certain women who can say "baby' that make me feel like I grew up under their feet and she and I are both glad I did. Still ... I get you on this, for sure.
ReplyDeleteI go back and forth on this. When I first moved to the South, and waitresses called me that, or something else nice, I really liked it. But now that I'm "elderly," I do not like the nurse practitioner calling me "sweetie." It implies that I'm helpless or something. (Macoff)
ReplyDeleteOh wow, for me it is guys calling me "sweetie" as I've worked a long time in a male dominated field. 100% resonate with this and hope that I can someday reach the point where I too can drive away instead needing to glare daggers in their direction or give them a piece of my mind.
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