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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm Gen-X. My 13-year-old daughter is under instructions to never call me 'bro' or 'bruh.'

My nephew's do that to my brother-in-law. They also call him 'dude.'

Dude is weird to me, but calling me 'bro' is just wrong. I want to be called Dad or Daddy. She's mostly okay with that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I am not partial to informal nicknames. If I stand with a group of my male coworkers I usually greet them with “gentleman” or something that. I don’t work with a lot of women but I’m not sure what to say to a group of women. Ladies seems kind of demeaning and gentlewomen sounds weird to me. I usually just go with miss or ma’am.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

"Bitches" while nodding politely.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Having come up in the 90s-00s, the few times I've been called "daddy" were a little surprising at the time ("it's just something I say, don't overthink it", etc), but thankfully said moments were in the rear-view quickly enough.

In later years, my kids didn't add the "y" and one even asked why other kids say it that way. Hell, I'm ok with "dude" from my kids or their friends, in certain contexts, but "bruh"? Might as well try calling me "son" or "boy", and see how that flies, child. 🤪