When a woman here calls you "Hun"

[MetaBob]

Here's an appropriately cartoon-y image, from a game I sometimes play:



Or "dear" (or "dearie"). But what she really means is "moron".

Yes, you read that right.

Or perhaps more precisely: "imbecile".

There is (or was) actually a scale for this sort of thing: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/moron-idiot-imbecile-offensive-history

I prefer the Irish variant: "Eejit", which can be used, it seems to me, in a self-deprecating and even more affectionate way. Though I have yet to do so.

Unless "now" counts.

Other synonyms used in this way include "simple", meaning "simpleton", or more archaically, "honest". Or more U.S. Southern: "sweet" or "well-intentioned" or "good-hearted", or even stringing them together like "dear sweet child, bless your heart".

 

[PrincessArianrhod]

Fine.

 

[Euphony]

So was context suspended globally and I missed it?

Is gravity next?

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

I only call you hun if I want to fuck you. So take note.

 

[000zing]

Presumably it's because she thinks of you as a primitive, warmongering, tribal kind of moron...

 

[alohadave]

Here's an appropriately cartoon-y image, from a game I sometimes play:

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Or "dear" (or "dearie"). But what she really means is "moron".

Yes, you read that right.

Or perhaps more precisely: "imbecile".

There is (or was) actually a scale for this sort of thing: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/moron-idiot-imbecile-offensive-history

I prefer the Irish variant: "Eejit", which can be used, it seems to me, in a self-deprecating and even more affectionate way. Though I have yet to do so.

Unless "now" counts.

Other synonyms used in this way include "simple", meaning "simpleton", or more archaically, "honest". Or more U.S. Southern: "sweet" or "well-intentioned" or "good-hearted", or even stringing them together like "dear sweet child, bless your heart".

If you want to call someone out, you should just tag them instead of dancing around it.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

So was context suspended globally and I missed it?

Is gravity next?

I hope not. It would totally mess up my hair

 

[Bamagan]

If you want to call someone out, you should just tag them instead of dancing around it.

The dancing, to me, suggests some kind of mating ritual.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I only call you hun if I want to fuck you. So take note.

Damn, if I only knew that... I would have flirted with all those women who called me hun, instead of thinking they were patronizing me in an endearing way...

 

[EmilyMiller]

Here's an appropriately cartoon-y image, from a game I sometimes play:

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Or "dear" (or "dearie"). But what she really means is "moron".

Yes, you read that right.

Or perhaps more precisely: "imbecile".

There is (or was) actually a scale for this sort of thing: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/moron-idiot-imbecile-offensive-history

I prefer the Irish variant: "Eejit", which can be used, it seems to me, in a self-deprecating and even more affectionate way. Though I have yet to do so.

Unless "now" counts.

Other synonyms used in this way include "simple", meaning "simpleton", or more archaically, "honest". Or more U.S. Southern: "sweet" or "well-intentioned" or "good-hearted", or even stringing them together like "dear sweet child, bless your heart".

Hey - I’m personally affronted, hun.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

I only call you hun if I want to fuck you. So take note.

Noted, hun .

Em

 

[PrincessArianrhod]

I shut down a ten page argument before by responding, "k". You just reminded me of that.

In person, strategic side-eye works well too. Combinations can be devastating.

 

[Euphony]

Hey - I’m personally affronted, hun.

Em

Noted, hun .

Em

See. When she does it like breathing, you can assume no ill intent.

I only call you hun if I want to fuck you. So take note.

Or apparently chafing.

So
Much
Chafing.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Damn, if I only knew that... I would have flirted with all those women who called me hun, instead of thinking they were patronizing me in an endearing way...

They were patronizing you, hun .

Em

 

[MetaBob]

Hey - I’m personally affronted, hun.

Em

Well, at least PrincessArianrhod got it. At least I think she did.

Didn't realize this would turn into a Rorschach test, but my, ain't it a fine one?

Perhaps I will return to my previous existence of being ignored. As in, "ignoramus."

 

[djrip]

Hey - I’m personally affronted, hun.

Em

Thought of you as soon as I saw the thread title

 

[PrincessArianrhod]

Well, at least PrincessArianrhod got it. At least I think she did.

I got it, hun.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I feel I’m at an Emily Miller cosplay convention.

Em

 

[KeithD]

I usually take it as a short form of "honey," and rather neutral. Sometimes it's obvious from the context that it's speaking down to me. When I choose not to take it as speaking down to me and that was what was meant, that it falls flat is satisfying.

 

[PrincessArianrhod]

@MetaBob Everyone else got it too but you know as well as I do that relevance is optional in the AH.

 

[MetaBob]

Curious what it tells you about how we responded.

I don't think that's what a Rorschach test is for. Really, all it tells me is:

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

Whatever.

The only word I know worse than "fine" coming from a significant other.

As for hun, lots of ladies down south use that for men when they're being friendly...or fishing for a tip. It's when they say "Well bless your heart" that you know you've really messed up.

 

[onehitwanda]

Fine.

Hello? 999? Yes. I have to report a murder.

 

[onehitwanda]

Whatever.

The only word I know worse than "fine" coming from a significant other.

As for hun, lots of ladies down south use that for men when they're being friendly...or fishing for a tip. It's when they say "Well bless your heart" that you know you've really messed up.

Particularly in the guise: "Do whatever you want."

 

[MillieDynamite]

One knows the other person has tuned you out when they respond, "Well, isn't that nice."