Ladies: How do you feel when men call you "honey"

Honey
babe
sweety
sweetheart
hun
baby-girl

This really only happens to me when I am at work. Customers or vendors seem to think they can address me this way.

I'm not your "babygirl" unless I am your girlfriend.

This never happens any other time then when I have been working. It seems like men feel like they can get away with calling you whatever they want when you have to be polite to them.

 

I use "love."

"Hello love"

"Thanks love"

"See ya tomorrow love"

It's a term of endearment, with do disrespect intended. Some chicks do take offense, but they are the kind of chicks I don't want to associate with anyway. The same could be said of the words you're talking about. Some guys use them as a term of endearment, but I think it comes off the wrong way to some people. Some guys obviously use them in the wrong manner, but I think it wouldn't be too difficult to tell the difference.

 

It's not hard to tell trust me. I worked at a bike shop and had to sell bikes to men all the time. Guys can be pretty rude sometimes. They just want a pretty girl to wait on them.

I'm not talking about respectful people.

 

I get "luv" a fair bit. I get called "smiley" too, by the regular patrons. "Oi, foxy!" is a popular one as well. The drunker they are, the louder the nicknames get.

 

i wanted to throw my two cents in here as a guy

i would never call a woman i don't know any of these names for any reason, it has always seemed really creepy to me

even for girls i'm dating, saying things like "hey babe" just seems really cheesy. "sweetie" and "darling" seem lighter and more acceptable

 

i feel like babygirl would be annoying even if you were dating.

 

I don't like if strange men call me pet names. It's condescending.

 

I sometimes call some of my friends something like ''sweetheart''.
It just happens naturally.
When strangers say it, it's just weird.
And babygirl is really awful.

 

It is. I agree.

 

I will add that if it is a very old man, like grandpa old, I don't mind as much because they are from another era and I am practically a little kid to them.

 

I dont think any of those are really used in England, except maybe sweetheart.
"Baby-girl as I see it, actually goes back to ie refers to the film Black Rain, when Michael Douglas calls his colleague "babyboy" - not in a fag way, just in a joke/ ie ironic way (which u need to see the film to understand).
Its like how a rapper (and now others) might call a girl "shortie", even if she's taller than him.

Personally, Im all a bit baffled by these new linguistic "rules"/ preferences.
I mean if a barmaid calls me "babes" or whatever, I dont go yelling sexism or whatever. (Id also wonder whether she can count... hehe)

The strangest place in the whole World for names is actually Leeds. Men call each other "love". Not gays, just each and every man in the city....wtf

 

Did you ever think they were just being nice or friendly? It could be worse would you rather they call you lady- Mam- Bitch-Whore or Slut? I would agree that baby girl is a little much.

 

i don't mind hun amongst friends of either sex.pretty general setiment.don't like honey from anyone.accept in my tea.sweethearts fine depending on my closeness to the person.lov is general ,use it myself alot .with lovers i like babe.babe is sexy,dose it for me every time. ha! ha!its a broad question,as it all the depends on the people using those phrases ta me and my connection to them,or lack of it.put it this way, when i'm walkin' down the street an some guy thats just walking past me says hi gorgeous,my response on the odd occassion i do respond at all, is get lost asshole!and they always respect my wishes. ha! ha!like i said,it all depends on when ,where and who.

 

Oh,boy.
the Twenty-seven zillionth item in the 'Things you can choose to be offended by' just flashed up. You won a trip to Poppet-land. Won't that be nice,flower?

[btw,that doesn't apply to roamy-she has UNICORNS bow to her beauty!]

 

bitch whore and slut are much more offensive than pet names.

it doesn't bother me at all.

 

I never use those kind of words to adress a lady. I always call them **** or walking vagina.

 

if anyone ever addressed me like that i'd knock "em out cold with one left hook.

 

Which one are you referring to?

 

This is how I feel. It definitely comes off as disrespectful and I am not into that.

 

The problem is that we don't like it that men think they have the right to call us any sort of name that is not our actual name.

And you are just naive if you think a guy that calls a girl he doesn't know 'honey' or 'babygirl' is just being nice. Yeah, he is definitely being condescending.