Do you mind male strangers calling you “love” or “darling”?

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Does it irritate you when complete male strangers call you by a term of endearment, like “love” or “darling”?
To answer the obvious question, yes, it does me and I tell them not to do it. Just curious.

No, I don't mind, in fact generally I like it. I live in an area where it's a normal part of speech.

No. I'm northern and I've either called them love first or will do so in response.

I really really hate it. I’ve recently been getting rid of stuff on Freecycle. Several men say ‘hey mate’ . ‘Hey buddy’ .
i had a gardener who I was trying to get a quote from say ‘Hey Buddy’ . I just deleted him.

It's common in Sheffield for men to call each other love.

No I like it, it's friendly . I don't mind other terms either like sweetheart, sweetie, duck, chick etc. There used to be a lovely old fella on the tights stall in the market hall when I was going who called everyone princess, still remember him very fondly.
I suppose it all depends on the way it's said too, some people will make your skin crawl no matter what they say.

Doesn’t bother me in the slightest

Not in the slightest , i think it's quite nice actually.

I work in retail and they say it all the time. Not bothered at all.

They’d be mate or lad.

Can’t see the big deal whatsoever, it’s one of the things I love about British culture.

i dont like it but I would usually just shrug it off

Doesn’t bother be atall.

I actually hate being called mate by men, it feels like they think I’m masculine! I know it doesn’t really make sense logically.

Fine by me! There's posh southerners on MN though who get offended by it. But then they get offended by everything. Must be tiring being posh and living in London.

Doesn't bother me.

It’s fine with me. Also, fine if a woman does it. Where I live it would be quite usual for an elderly gent (or lady) to call a me a “good girl”

I don’t mind.

The only name and I don’t like is ‘pal’ and I get that a lot living in Scotland!

I like chuck and cock sparrow

I say these words all the time to boys and girls

causing a fuss over this gives feminists a bad name

id rather focus on :
equal pay and pay gap
pain gap
misogonony in medicine
rape violence here, and around the world
glass ceiling
maternity rights
misogony online toxic masculinity
etc
etc
etc

Here in the East Midlands it’s ‘duck’ and women use it to each other or to men at least as much as men do to women. Men also use it to other men, although ‘mate’ is more usual these days.

It’d be daft to object, mi duck. People are just being friendly.

Where I live everyone calls each other bab. I lived away for some years and when I came back to settle and the window cleaner called me bab I felt I was home.

No

'Buddy' reminds me of The Far Side 😉

Doesn’t bother me. I don’t think it’s particularly more common from males anyway.

Doesn't bother me. It's duck here in west midlands

Depends on the person and the intent.

Working in retail for many years, maybe 98% were cheery greetings and 1% slimy sleazebag, 1% superiority complex.