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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The word “littles”.

When moms refer to themselves and other moms as “mommas”.

I find these petty, and I roll my eyes at myself for thinking they’re petty, but here we are.[/quote]

I think it’s cute and I love it.  Me and my girls talk like this and don’t have any issues with it.  [/quote]

Since no doubt your "girls" are just your little clique of preschool mommies and not your daughters, this is unsurprising.[/quote]

Wow.  You must be lonely and bitter and not have a group of girls to call as your friends.  [/quote]

Most of us just call our friends “friends” instead of infantilizing grown women in order to make ourselves sound cute and non-threatening.[/quote]

+1. Plus, after your twenties, it just sounds like you are trying to grasp at youth. It’s OK to be mature. [/quote]

I'm one of the PPs complaining about this and this is exactly my issue -- I don't like when women use what is essentially baby talk. I think they do it subconsciously to make themselves appear younger, cuter, and dumber. It's internalized misogyny.

And what is annoying about it is that sometimes it works. I've worked with women who speak like this and will literally act dumb to get out of doing work or get people to help them with things they should do on their own, and if they are good at it and reasonably attractive, both men and women will fall over themselves helping them. I understand why it's tempting but that doesn't make it any less regressive. Grown women should not be trying to appear to be children as a means of getting attention, being like, or getting needs met (grown men shouldn't do it either!).[/quote]

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