Do you mind if people call you babe?

Jenny484

Don't particularly like it. Pet names I dislike in the order I hate the most:

1) Babes
2) Babe
3) Hun/Hon

pops5588

Treevo wrote: »

I get it from older women. It doesn't bother me in the slightest - I find people who get upset about things like this are usually the type I want to be nothing like.

:rotfl: ouch. Was that really necessary?!

Idiophreak

butler_helen

Person_one wrote: »

Just hearing someone else being called 'babe' winds me up.

Unless its in this context:

^^^^ this.

I hate it. Knowone I know would call me that, my name is my name and unless you are my fianc! there is no need to call me anything else.

I'm a right old grump I know, I do relax when I'm in the north and my fiances family/community call me "duck", I think it's because "duck" isn't a term of endearment.

Alikay

I'm 52 and wear glasses which tend to make me look a bit stern. People do not call me babe. Ever.:o

heartbreak_star

It's never bothered me.

Princess, on the other hand...!

HBS x

building_with_lego

If anyone calls me 'babe', 'love' or 'hun' I call them it right back. Or 'sugarpuff' or 'honeypants' etc, if they're younger than me.

Edit: I don't mind 'my love' at all but without that possessive it's just awful.

MrsE_2

I used to call my dd babe, but she told me off as she got older.
I tend to call most children darling.

fashionlover10

victor2 wrote: »

DD and her BF call each other Babe, but not to anybody else. Assuming you asked him in a nice way, he should have just accepted you didn't like that name, no matter how many people he calls that.
He's clearly not close to you, so it's his loss. He may get over it and talk to you again.
Children and OH have "pet names" for me, but I wouldn't expect anyone else to use them.

I do think I asked nicely. I simply said 'I don't like being called babe, please don't do it.'

fashionlover10

butler_helen wrote: »

^^^^ this.

I hate it. Knowone I know would call me that, my name is my name and unless you are my fianc! there is no need to call me anything else.

I'm a right old grump I know, I do relax when I'm in the north and my fiances family/community call me "duck", I think it's because "duck" isn't a term of endearment.

I spent some of my childhood in Lincolnshire where I would often get called duck which never really bothered me. Maybe that was because I was only 11 and it was usually older women who used the term towards me.