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>This is between strangers, right? You can still call your loved
>ones "dear", "honey", "dar" etc?
>Sunnan
Yes, I am referring to workplace situations -- employee/boss,
worker/customer, employee/employee, -- and other stranger-
on-the-street situations, such as police officer/civilian, person
asking directions/person giving directions. It's a very different
vibe when my father calls me 'honey' than when my bigoted male
boss does.
As for those pockets of the U.S. where men refer to men in such
terms, I've never heard of it! Backs up my assertion that I've
been to parts of the U.S. that feel way more foreign than foreign
countries!
- - Mary
- --
"It would have been both ironic and glamorous
to be finished off by a four-foot glitter ball."
- Boy George; after a falling disco ball
narrowly missed his head.
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