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Aug 2, 2019 2:07 PM
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I've encountered this a lot in my daily travels. Women from all ages and nationalities will address me as either, Sweetie, Honey or Sugar. I think it's probably due to the fact that I'm such a handsome individual, and I appreciate the flattery, but ladies please.. You're making me feel like a piece of meat.

Have any of my fellow posters encountered the same thing?

Are these ladies down.. to get down, if you catch my drift?
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Aug 2, 2019 2:10 PM
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Maybe it is because you are such a nice guy and they can tell :)
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Aug 2, 2019 2:12 PM
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I haven't ever experienced this, at least not from younger women.

Older women will sometimes use hun/honey/sweetie as a condescending way of talking to you, because they think that they know better for some reason.


Aug 2, 2019 2:15 PM
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Oh Sweetie I don't know I think that it's just a common way of communication, your looking too much into it.πŸ˜‰
Aug 2, 2019 2:16 PM
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Based on my experience sweetie and honey are synonymous of friend zoning so I cut that out as soon as possible.
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Aug 2, 2019 2:31 PM
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Yes, I have, I think it's just a polite way of addressing someone they don't know. Rarity from MLP says darling a lot.
Aug 2, 2019 2:34 PM
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I've only experienced it from older women and condescending younger women
Aug 2, 2019 2:39 PM
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I need to tell you that getting them to notice you is a feat itself because they usually like it rough if you're drifting around my nibbahood.
Aug 2, 2019 2:47 PM
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SpamuraiSensei said:
I've encountered this a lot in my daily travels. Women from all ages and nationalities will address me as either, Sweetie, Honey or Sugar. I think it's probably due to the fact that I'm such a handsome individual, and I appreciate the flattery, but ladies please.. You're making me feel like a piece of meat.

Have any of my fellow posters encountered the same thing?

Are these ladies down.. to get down, if you catch my drift?

Yeah man, it's really nice to hear them say that. It's always such an "endearing" thing. Or IS it lmao.
Aug 2, 2019 2:47 PM

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Nah, I find those terms a bit creepy to be honest. I can tolerate 'dear', that one's alright, and I come from parents who always call each other 'love' so I'd probably end up saying that without even realising it, but all the others are just bleh
Aug 2, 2019 2:51 PM

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I guess it's polite sometimes, not super familiar but friendly. It is used sometimes in condescension but I rarely meet people like that who do it unironically.
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Aug 2, 2019 2:56 PM
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I only know this from old women towards girls and boys and young women and men, so I dunno... do young people that in your environment so often?

I called close friends a few times only... I don't know how to translate it 100 %... "Süßer / Süße", because they also did. It's a little bit like sweety, sweetheart or cutey, but grammatically including their gender.
And that was / is very rare, because it's kitschy, if you are doing that often. That was more into a context of them / me crying like "oh, sweetheart *hug*" or something.
Aug 2, 2019 4:08 PM
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In one of my group therapy sessions a couple years back, this old 60 something woman leading it called everyone sweetie every now and then. Totally caught me off guard that she'd act so sugary to us. I felt like I was in the wrong place and I mixed it up where I was supposed to be at lol. I think the others felt the same.

Well, at first it (really) annoyed me but after a couple months, I kinda appreciated it or at least didn't mind it. Someone who I learned wasn't faking it over time.

Still, I can't say whether I'd like or I'd dislike those remarks now. Still feels very surreal and strange like a dream. I kinda have to check myself when I think about such things.
Aug 2, 2019 4:10 PM

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i've been addressed as a sweetie and honey on a daily basis irl in the public
usually by older women (30 or above) and that's pretty common here i think since it's a way to show friendliness to people marginally younger than you; to some extent i do think they're saying it for the sake of politeness as well
on the internet not so often but i've been called sweet before (a guy calls a guy sweet is kinda weird though unless it's a weeb banter or something alike)
i'd take it as a compliment
Aug 2, 2019 4:21 PM

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I'd never address someone that way, calling someone who's practically a stranger sweetie or honey just sounds a bit overly friendly. Granted i understand it's probably just a habit for some people, so i'm not going to be rude and tell them not to call me that.
Aug 2, 2019 4:35 PM

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I've only experienced this with older women. I think it is cute desu.
Aug 2, 2019 4:48 PM

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2ego said:
I think it's just a common thing in some areas. However, sometimes people address you like that to assert their experience; indirectly saying you don't have any.


i get you there
older women do that to me all the time and i'm feeling like they're viewing me as someone of fewer life experience
by no means i'd directly relate it to condescendence however and i know they're saying it for the sake of being polite and amiable
Aug 2, 2019 6:35 PM

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Xstasy said:
Oh Sweetie I don't know I think that it's just a common way of communication, your looking too much into it.πŸ˜‰


You called me sweetie and used a winking emoji. That must mean you're attempting to flirt with me.
Aug 2, 2019 6:46 PM

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Seiya said:
Older women will sometimes use hun/honey/sweetie as a condescending way of talking to you, because they think that they know better for some reason.

Replace "older women" with "some bitch I used to know" and this is exactly how a worthless cunt of a former friend of mine would use the the terms against me when I said something she didn't like. So it''s not just condescending older women, it's condescending basic bitches too.

Aug 3, 2019 12:09 AM

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What I thought of when I first saw this post lol




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Aug 3, 2019 12:29 AM

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In my experience I've only had this happen with older women. I don't think nothing of it.
Aug 3, 2019 5:17 AM
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Lots of older women do this in the south if they think you're young or awkward or "cute"
Aug 3, 2019 6:13 AM

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im too old for ppl to say that tooo me...
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What I thought of when I first saw this post lol




I was thing the same thing.
Aug 3, 2019 6:29 AM
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Xstasy said:
Oh Sweetie I don't know I think that it's just a common way of communication, your looking too much into it.πŸ˜‰


I think this is probably it. Older women say it all the time, especially if you’re younger than they are. As @nessarosie pointed out, it’s actually fairly common in the south.
Aug 3, 2019 1:29 PM

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SpamuraiSensei said:
Are these ladies down.. to get down, if you catch my drift?
OP must be boy who has little experience with women? they're calling you sweetie and honey, not asking to suck your dick dude
don't read into it too much buddy
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Wut? Wtf? Are you all actually so cute or people just hate me irl?
Why no older women ever call me anything so cute?
I always get the Sir / Mister...
I mean honestly the best I get is ‘young man’ :<

And I’ve been to many countries and for relatively long periods of time... Fml.
you're manliest man that's why. lux who tf is going to call you sweetie?? maybe my grandmother
Xstasy said:
Oh Sweetie I don't know I think that it's just a common way of communication, your looking too much into it.πŸ˜‰
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Aug 3, 2019 4:20 PM
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SpamuraiSensei said:
I think it's probably due to the fact that I'm such a handsome individual


Lol

You know who else calls people sweetie and honey? Old people.

Basically, it's another term just like "love" that has lost its impact when said.
Aug 3, 2019 4:44 PM
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Oh, honey, women only call you that because they can sense you're a pathetic virgin. Bless your little heart.
They're basically treating you like a retarded puppy.



Aug 3, 2019 4:59 PM

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Dude like, i have my closest friends who have been taken for years, call me such names like babe, hun, sweetheart, sweetie, honey, sweetness, etc. It's all just an endearment thing yo. "Terms of endearment." Just letting me know, they care. However some ppl i feel, don't understand that term and even take such things way too far then they should, lol
Aug 3, 2019 5:02 PM
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Can't say it about women but I certainly get countless messages from older males trying to get in my pants all the time. You get used to it over time but it also starts feeling extremely artificial and it's hard to really take anything people like that say as a sincere compliment considering the rather blatant ulterior motives lying behind them

When people just say stuff like that casually as a greeting though I don't think you should worry about it. They're probably just trying to be nice and/or polite
Aug 3, 2019 7:03 PM

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If someone my age (or even younger) were calling me "sweetie" or "honey", I would be a bit confused. I've only come across this when dealing with older women (usually in customer/employee exchanges).
Aug 3, 2019 7:35 PM
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I've never understood the appeal of these dating simulators. It seems the developers don't have much experience with women considering most character dialogues.
Aug 3, 2019 7:59 PM

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Ahahahahaaaa I usually lay it off as
bullshit.
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Aug 4, 2019 12:06 AM

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She's low-key asking if you're looking for a new mommy.
Aug 4, 2019 12:59 AM

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if a bunch of girls suddenly show interest in an all-round mediocre guy then romance is probably the last thing on any of their minds. Be careful brother.

Aug 4, 2019 2:43 AM
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Pretty sure you're misinterpreting them buddy, sweetie and honey are generally terms used by women talking down to you lol, or even best case scenario they just come from one of the few specific places in the South where people tend to add those into their sentences whenever they refer to the person they're talking too (even men from these places often do it).

Now if someone's calling you gorgeous or cutie or muffin or whatever THEN you can pretty safely interpret it as them hitting on you lol.
Aug 4, 2019 2:50 AM
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One of the aims of error management theory is to explain sexual overperception bias.[5] Sexual overperception occurs when a type I error is committed by an individual. Under this type error, the individual falsely concludes that the member of the opposite sex has a sexual interest in the individual.[5] Males are more likely than females to commit sexual overperception bias, as evidenced by previous research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_management_theory#Males
Aug 4, 2019 12:29 PM

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Nice humblebragging you got there sweaty cochon.
But have I encountered this before? No, never, no one has ever called me that, not my aunts, cousins EVEN my mother, so pretty much everyone from the opposite gender has neglected me. But at least I can talk to animals who call me all kinda names.
Aug 4, 2019 2:43 PM
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Are you done already? Good, because I don't think that somebody would care if you're called sweetie by ladies of all ages, or that you consider yourself handsome.

I was called sweetie by ladies and also gentelmans of all ages, even by phone, not to mention that it happened to me face to face and also online aswell.

I guess now we all know who the real winner is. Not to flex or anything, but ...

And if you're wondering, yeah, I'm cute.
Aug 4, 2019 5:23 PM
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Excluding the girls which are really close friends with me from childhood the only times i experienced that was in online video-chat or messages chat or from my ex gf.

Aug 5, 2019 3:42 PM

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I got this alot from older ladies and older men when I was working. Its just them being friendly.
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Aug 7, 2019 1:50 PM

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I really love this, I liked being sweet talked too, even if it's by some old hag!
Aug 7, 2019 1:58 PM

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It's just a politeness thing, not flirting. And if it's meant to be received in any flirtatious way, then it's typically not genuine affection, but more to seem warm and welcoming to get a tip, like a waitress at a restaurant or someone working at a hotel. I've gotten it fairly often over the years and I'm an average-looking not-finely dressed guy nothing about whose look and demeanor in carrying myself says "receptive to flirting".

It's fine, if they say it or not. I'm completely neutral on it. It doesn't bother me at all, nor does it do anything for me. I guess I'd rather them be polite than rude and abrupt, even if for superficial reasons like company policy or courting money.

Aug 7, 2019 2:08 PM

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when people call you that they're either old and adorable, or they're condescendingly fucking with you

what you think they're flirting? hah
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Aug 7, 2019 2:15 PM
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They're either old or condescending pricks lol. I kinda wish that this OP's post is ironic because otherwise it's too sad.
Aug 7, 2019 2:18 PM

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They're either old or condescending pricks lol. I kinda wish that this OP's post is ironic because otherwise it's too sad.
you know they say that great minds think alike
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Aug 7, 2019 2:26 PM
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Orhunaa said:
They're either old or condescending pricks lol. I kinda wish that this OP's post is ironic because otherwise it's too sad.
you know they say that great minds think alike


Ah you're flattering me but in the process also yourself so I guess it's fair lol. I humbly accept it.

Are you thinking of creating any new threads btw? I was that guy who kept pestering you to do so after the tiger one if you don't remember it.
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Railey2 said:
you know they say that great minds think alike


Ah you're flattering me but in the process also yourself so I guess it's fair lol. I humbly accept it.

Are you thinking of creating any new threads btw? I was that guy who kept pestering you to do so after the tiger one if you don't remember it.
ah shit yeah i remember.

I dunno, I feel less like baiting people nowadays, but if the opportunity presents itself, I probably will.
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I'd watch out, she wants to eat you b r o
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I only ever call people sweetie in a dominant way, if you catch my drift. But I'm only 20. If I call someone sweetie, I am actively flirting with them and trying to let them know that I'm in charge.
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I only ever call people sweetie in a dominant way, if you catch my drift. But I'm only 20. If I call someone sweetie, I am actively flirting with them and trying to let them know that I'm in charge.


Does it work? Sounds like something that'd creep out a chick these days.
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