Hey there Honey....

Yes, indeed it is.
Just yesterday in a year 10 class I was teaching, a year 10 boy (who knows me pretty well) said to me: "I need some help with this (drawing), babe!"

To which I responded: "Be there in a minute, honey bunch!"

No one in the class thought that either remark was offensive.
We all just had a laugh at the silliness & moved on without a blink.

And the context.

Yup.

"I need some help in deciding what to take and what to leave babe"

I only use honey for my peanut butter and honey sandwiches.

Never use the term for endearment purposes. Or any other for that matter ... to the best of my memory.

You soil the delicious natural goodness of peanut butter with honey? Egads!

Babe - I use that all the time too with my daughters. You can hear me cheering my daughter from the stands in a sporting event and usually I say could catch babe! Or good shot babe!

I call the other kids baby too.

Just me - and it is meant as endearing.

Yep! It just struck me - because I use honey alot in talking nicely. But I have heard honey used not so nicely especially when a woman is being kinda dumb.

I use all this stuff and I don't really know where I got it because my parents most emphatically did not.

Sozlet is honey and babe and sweetie and darlin' and all the rest of it. Also I use variations of "pie" as a suffix -- "babypie," "honeypie," etc. (We've examined the idea of "babypie" a bit, is it a pie made out of babies? Or a tiny little miniature pie?) A baby relative is named Maggie and I found myself calling her Maggiepie or Magpie, that worked.

Sozlet likes it.

With good friends I'll sometimes say "sweetie" or "darling" or "chica," usually with at least a little bit of irony.

And E.G. gets this stuff too.

Beyond that I don't use it much.

I agree that tone/ context is all.

I've known people who get offended at endearments from people who are, effectively, strangers, and what i mostly have in mind is waitresses. There was one waitress i knew who was nowhere near five feet tall, and i called her "Lil Bit," which she did not mind. But there was one waitress i knew, and with whom i got along fine, who routinely addressed me as "sugar pie," or just "shoog." She was a southern girl. You get that in diners, not white table cloth restaurants.

Agreeing that tone/context is key. Remember though that it doesn't have to be all or nothing.
For instance, in that case, I wasn't saying it in an endearing way, since I don't know the woman, however, it wasn't meant in the rude, condescending way either.

It was meant as a tool to show "been there, done that, not worth it" context.

For those who didn't read that thread, I said something like "honey, there're a lot bigger hills to die on"

Soz, that's so funny, I call Wally "babypie" sometimes too. I think that's because as well as calling him honey, I'll call him baby, and sweetiepie, and it gets mixed up together.

Does anyone else ever say "chickiebabe"?

I say chickiebabe when I can't remember woman's name, when I'm referring to her to others. As in "That chickiebabe in purchasing? What's her name again? She said to resubmit the PO and they'll put in on backorder."

Our Lady Diane calls her friends "Sweetie".

BBB

I get it - kinda like when some people, use "girlfriend"

The one problem with typing/email/texting is often times "tone" is mis-read.

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant....

grrrlfren, you have other hills to die on.

Nome sain?

I've just been oop North, and all the women I met called me luvvie.

I don't use such terms of endearment, except with small children and pets, and I don't appreciate them being used in regards to me.

This is a personal preference and other than feeling embarrased for the person, I don't really care if anyone calls anyone else "honey," "sweetie," "babe" or a similiar unctuous term.

Although I am sure there are times when it is intended to be condescending, that's not, particularly, my objection.

I also am not fond of public displays of affection beyond walking arm in arm and a quick peck.

Imagen perfecta de recuerdos
Dispersas por todo el piso
Alcance para hacer que el teléfono "
No puedo luchar más

Y me pregunto si
Alguna vez tu mente
Para mí, pasa todo el tiempo

Es la una y cuarto
Estoy solo
Y te necesito ahora
Dijo que yo no lo llamaría
Pero he perdido todo el control
Y te necesito ahora

Oh, Finn, babe, that makes me sad.



<kidding, kidding>