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> Addressing a woman in distress, e.g., "constant nightmares", affectionately, "honey" is quite appropriate with nothing wrong at all. No. No it is not. Jesus

> Addressing a woman in distress, e.g., "constant nightmares", affectionately, "honey" is quite appropriate with nothing wrong at all. No. No it is not. Jesus christ. You do not get to call a woman you don't know "honey", "darling", "sweetie", "sweetie pie", "sweetheart", "sugar", "baby", "doll", "angel", etc. If you do know her, you better either be her father or mother, or significant other. I don't care if you're from the South. I'm from the South. Fucking stop it.

graycat 11y ago
> call a woman you don't know Name a woman I called "honey". You can't, because there isn't one. Moreover, since I am anonymous at HN, no human female can, from anything I wrote, name anyone who called her "honey". Instead, there is full anonymity. How many times have explained this point here. Do you have it now? You are angry with no reason to be angry. You are straining to find something wrong where there isn't anything. There's plenty that's wrong in this world without straining to find things that are not wrong and call them wrong. Getting so angry and concerned about nothing significant is a serious symptom of anxiety disease, neurotic behavior, hysteria, paranoia, etc. (David Shapiro, Neurotic Styles, ISBN 0-465-09502-X, Leon Salzman, Treatment of the Obsessive Personality, ISBN 0-87668-881-4). Get some professional help. For your reaction, in plain language, you have been sold one huge pile of rotten garbage. A lot of that garbage is in the dump called politically correct. Apparently some people are making a living from pushing politically correctness. Where might we find examples? Sure, the newsies. And, why them? Because they are in the ad business and need eyeballs, and their main way to get eyeballs is to grab people by the heart, the gut, and below the belt, especially with claims of things wrong, evil, danger, scandal. So, scare people. So, go back to the French Revolution where any recognition of any difference was seen as a threat of tyranny (E. Fromm, The Art of Loving). So, some newsie starts with some claims of something wrong, and other newsies jump on. They form a mob. Then all the newsies in the mob keep running their stories about the claim, getting ad revenue, with all the other similar stories by the mob providing credibility (confirmation bias). It's a manipulation, a scam. It's dishonest and disgusting. Political correctness is a bottomless pit of such scary stories, all based on absolutely nothing. Part of that garbage is some outrageous fear that there is something just terribly wrong saying anything that mentions gender, especially anything that mentions that in some ways there are some differences among the sexes. So, part of the idea is to eradicate any recognition of any differences among the sexes and to strain to pretend that each sex is in all respects identical to every other sex. All of this totally ignores that only women can have children, only women have ovaries, and only men have testicles. Amazing. That politically correct garbage is doing huge amounts of harm to the US. Some of the harm is the high divorce rate, in some cases, higher suicide rates, and, in total, a birth rate so low that the US citizens of Western European descent are going extinct -- literally. Family formation has been shot in the gut. The harm is so great it looks like a result of deliberate sabotage from some enemies of the US. Some more harm? Sure, from the OP, "constant nightmares". There's more than one sex. That's a simple fact we are supposed to understand before we are even three years old. Laws, politically correct norms, and disgusting newsie manipulations won't change that. Insisting that there is only one sex will lead only to disaster. Yup, now the big politically correct screaming is that we must have just one variety of public restrooms, that is, everyone must share the same restrooms. So, now my four year old daughter has to share a restroom with some sick-o old man. That's sabotage of our country. You've been sold a huge pile of reeking garbage. Better send it back to wherever you got it. Then for a cognitive approach, use your rationalism to filter out garbage like you were sold and bought. Then get some professional help and calm down.

graycat 11y ago

> call a woman you don't know Name a woman I called "honey". You can't, because there isn't one. Moreover, since I am anonymous at HN, no human female can, from anything I wrote, name anyone who called her "honey". Instead, there is full anonymity. How many times have explained this point here. Do you have it now? You are angry with no reason to be angry. You are straining to find something wrong where there isn't anything. There's plenty that's wrong in this world without straining to find things that are not wrong and call them wrong. Getting so angry and concerned about nothing significant is a serious symptom of anxiety disease, neurotic behavior, hysteria, paranoia, etc. (David Shapiro, Neurotic Styles, ISBN 0-465-09502-X, Leon Salzman, Treatment of the Obsessive Personality, ISBN 0-87668-881-4). Get some professional help. For your reaction, in plain language, you have been sold one huge pile of rotten garbage. A lot of that garbage is in the dump called politically correct. Apparently some people are making a living from pushing politically correctness. Where might we find examples? Sure, the newsies. And, why them? Because they are in the ad business and need eyeballs, and their main way to get eyeballs is to grab people by the heart, the gut, and below the belt, especially with claims of things wrong, evil, danger, scandal. So, scare people. So, go back to the French Revolution where any recognition of any difference was seen as a threat of tyranny (E. Fromm, The Art of Loving). So, some newsie starts with some claims of something wrong, and other newsies jump on. They form a mob. Then all the newsies in the mob keep running their stories about the claim, getting ad revenue, with all the other similar stories by the mob providing credibility (confirmation bias). It's a manipulation, a scam. It's dishonest and disgusting. Political correctness is a bottomless pit of such scary stories, all based on absolutely nothing. Part of that garbage is some outrageous fear that there is something just terribly wrong saying anything that mentions gender, especially anything that mentions that in some ways there are some differences among the sexes. So, part of the idea is to eradicate any recognition of any differences among the sexes and to strain to pretend that each sex is in all respects identical to every other sex. All of this totally ignores that only women can have children, only women have ovaries, and only men have testicles. Amazing. That politically correct garbage is doing huge amounts of harm to the US. Some of the harm is the high divorce rate, in some cases, higher suicide rates, and, in total, a birth rate so low that the US citizens of Western European descent are going extinct -- literally. Family formation has been shot in the gut. The harm is so great it looks like a result of deliberate sabotage from some enemies of the US. Some more harm? Sure, from the OP, "constant nightmares". There's more than one sex. That's a simple fact we are supposed to understand before we are even three years old. Laws, politically correct norms, and disgusting newsie manipulations won't change that. Insisting that there is only one sex will lead only to disaster. Yup, now the big politically correct screaming is that we must have just one variety of public restrooms, that is, everyone must share the same restrooms. So, now my four year old daughter has to share a restroom with some sick-o old man. That's sabotage of our country. You've been sold a huge pile of reeking garbage. Better send it back to wherever you got it. Then for a cognitive approach, use your rationalism to filter out garbage like you were sold and bought. Then get some professional help and calm down.