I'm not sure how I feel about it. It makes me slightly uncomfortable, I think, but then I think about why, and it's probably because I view that particularly term of endearment as more feminine (is it?), but then I go, why should that matter (gender equality and all that)? I dunno.
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I've gotten "babe."
It always struck me as more woppy than anything else.
It was an ironic "babe."
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
I'm used to "babe": my parents call me that. Often, the way my mom distinguishes me from my dad is that she calls him "honey" and me "babe".
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Brandon: "I had casual sex this weekend." Alex: "I had sex too, with someone I love who accepts and loves me." Kodi: "I cleaned up my .emacs."
I'd say it's generally more feminine, but it isn't unheard of as applied to men. For example, in Sonny and Cher's song, "I Got You Babe", they're calling each other babe.
On the other hand, I think it'd feel a bit odd being called such.
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Fame is but a slow decay.
-Theodore Tilton
I don't like being called babe or baby either, and I feel weird the few times in life I've said it.
If it don't work, it don't work. There's nothing wrong with it, just like there's nothing wrong with the color brown, but you happen to like green better. But there's no reason to force yourself into liking brown. Someone else will like it, it won't be lonely :P
Edited for clarification.
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