Can we ban “kiddo?”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have an idea. Why don’t you use the words you want to use and STFU about other people?

What if the words I want to use are: "I hate it when people say kiddo and littles"?

Live and let live, baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:no, I like it

No. It’s nauseating. You sound like a child when you say it and it isn’t cute whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:donesies, but then we get to have littles back

Uh, no. Littles is worse. Why do adults want to sound insipid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It drives me nuts that these are terms only women use, and that this manner of speaking is very transparently something women do to appear cute/non-threatening/charming.

I know some of you are going to say "that's not why I do it, I just like it," but it's baby talk and women use baby talk intentionally to make themselves appear helpless and cute. It is really grating.

+1,000,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. Freedom of speech.

Thanks for letting us know you don’t know what “free speech” is (and isn’t). Go back to 9th grade civics/government class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It drives me nuts that these are terms only women use, and that this manner of speaking is very transparently something women do to appear cute/non-threatening/charming.

I know some of you are going to say "that's not why I do it, I just like it," but it's baby talk and women use baby talk intentionally to make themselves appear helpless and cute. It is really grating.

It bothers me that you think that it's specific to women, and also that you can police it. Treating women like adult means not lecturing them on their word choice. Your misogyny shows.

Oh, you’re one of THOSE. Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It drives me nuts that these are terms only women use, and that this manner of speaking is very transparently something women do to appear cute/non-threatening/charming.

I know some of you are going to say "that's not why I do it, I just like it," but it's baby talk and women use baby talk intentionally to make themselves appear helpless and cute. It is really grating.

It bothers me that you think that it's specific to women, and also that you can police it. Treating women like adult means not lecturing them on their word choice. Your misogyny shows.

Treating women like adults means holding them accountable when they use cutesy baby talk. If men spoke this way, and especially if they did it specifically to make themselves look cute and non-threatening, we'd also criticize them.

If you want to be treated like an adult, try speaking like one. A grown up doesn't say crap like "ooooh, the hubs and I love that place, we can't wait to take the littles there next vacay!" That is the language of a freaking idiot.

No, if men used it you wouldn't decide it was cutesy, or that the person was an idiot or not an adult. You would decide it was a legitimate word. You're already misogynist so when a woman does something you think it must be idiotic.

Wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no, I like it

+1 I say it often.

Gag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It drives me nuts that these are terms only women use, and that this manner of speaking is very transparently something women do to appear cute/non-threatening/charming.

I know some of you are going to say "that's not why I do it, I just like it," but it's baby talk and women use baby talk intentionally to make themselves appear helpless and cute. It is really grating.

Thsts not how many of this works.

It absolutely IS how this works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I like it. And I'm kinda over these threads about how people get all wrapped around the axle about innocuous names like this. Kiddo, buddy, littles, etc. They are all Fiiiiiine. Get a life OP.

No, they’re not “fiiiiiine.” They’re childish and idiotic and when you use them, you sound childish and idiotic. But hey, if that’s your goal, do continue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m an adult, and my even-more-adult father calls me kiddo. I think it’s incredibly sweet.

Feel free to ban it from your vernacular, but I love it.

"Kiddo" as a form of address is miles apart from "kiddos" as a general noun. If you like it when someone you're close to calls you "kiddo," please enjoy

I had an older coworker who called anyone younger than he was "kiddo," and I hated it. But we both knew he was doing it to assert his position of authority.

I have no idea why grown women use it to refer to children. It's cutesy. Gag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an adult, and my even-more-adult father calls me kiddo. I think it’s incredibly sweet.

Feel free to ban it from your vernacular, but I love it.

"Kiddo" as a form of address is miles apart from "kiddos" as a general noun. If you like it when someone you're close to calls you "kiddo," please enjoy

I had an older coworker who called anyone younger than he was "kiddo," and I hated it. But we both knew he was doing it to assert his position of authority.

I have no idea why grown women use it to refer to children. It's cutesy. Gag.

Agree it's different. Calling your own child kiddo is a different thing than referencing your kids, or kids generally, as kiddos (or littles).

Like I call my kid "sweetheart" sometimes and I don't care if what other people think of that one way or another. But what if I walked around calling all children, collectively, "sweethearts"? Or if I described my kid to you as "my sweetheart"? It would be weird AF and you'd judge me. Well that's how other people feel why you use kiddo in the same way.

[Anonymous]

It's a pretty safe bet that anyone who refers to their offspring as littles or kiddos also calls their cats/dogs "furbabies".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have an idea. Why don’t you use the words you want to use and STFU about other people?

What if the words I want to use are: "I hate it when people say kiddo and littles"?

Live and let live, baby.

That’s very much not live and let live, that’s why you should STFU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also hate the word kid. Can we add that to the banned list?

Came here to say this. It probably because my mom did too and said it sounded trashy. We use child/children or son/daughter depending on the situation.