02-15-2015, 03:59 PM
Honey, Bro, love, gurrrl, Etc.
These are a few examples of the names we give each other.Even my birth name Christopher, has a nickname of Chris. Chris can also be a nickname for someone entirely different, like Christina. Pat is a nickname for Patricia and or Patrick, and those are considered acceptable in most if not all communities.
But what about the others? Just the other day I was in the grocery store and the nice lady cashier called me "honey"...To me?? any female giving me a compliment gives me a warming feeling to my heart. Because I love all women.
But what if I was a girl and the cashier was a guy calling me honey? Me in my human experience would say I'd react the same way as I described above. BUT others have different human experiences, would another woman think it patronizing, or worse? Or what If I didn't like to be called Honey. Some men prefer sir.
This guy I used to work with, his name was Eric, but we'd call him Beuford as a joke...he enjoyed it, don't know where it even came from. When I worked at the nursing home, I was a porter, which was under maintenance as far as rank goes. But I used to do anything and everything to make myself valuable to the company. One day my boss said "he's not in maintenance yet, but he's a junior" from then on my bosses called me junior...
Do you have any nicknames that you know of? What where your nicknames? Did the nicknames you got or gave cause a feeling of endearment or hostility, or whatever...
These are a few examples of the names we give each other.Even my birth name Christopher, has a nickname of Chris. Chris can also be a nickname for someone entirely different, like Christina. Pat is a nickname for Patricia and or Patrick, and those are considered acceptable in most if not all communities.
But what about the others? Just the other day I was in the grocery store and the nice lady cashier called me "honey"...To me?? any female giving me a compliment gives me a warming feeling to my heart. Because I love all women.
But what if I was a girl and the cashier was a guy calling me honey? Me in my human experience would say I'd react the same way as I described above. BUT others have different human experiences, would another woman think it patronizing, or worse? Or what If I didn't like to be called Honey. Some men prefer sir.
This guy I used to work with, his name was Eric, but we'd call him Beuford as a joke...he enjoyed it, don't know where it even came from. When I worked at the nursing home, I was a porter, which was under maintenance as far as rank goes. But I used to do anything and everything to make myself valuable to the company. One day my boss said "he's not in maintenance yet, but he's a junior" from then on my bosses called me junior...
Do you have any nicknames that you know of? What where your nicknames? Did the nicknames you got or gave cause a feeling of endearment or hostility, or whatever...
