To really detest the term 'little man' for a baby/little boy

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It just seems that everyone is using this term now and it annoys me - they're not a little man, they're a baby or a little boy! Why impose any connotation of being a 'man' already on a tiny child, just let them be a child! I don't hear 'little woman' with reference to a baby girl so why the keenness to have it the other way round?! Is this some subconscious way of encouraging little boys to be 'manly' or stereotypically masculine or am I completely overreacting and it's just a cute term. I am prepared to accept that maybe I am Anyway, anyone else got any terms/sayings they find (potentially) unreasonably annoying?

I hate prince and princess! Little man doesn’t bother me whatsoever though! Or little lady! My son is ‘captain littlebody’ to me and probably always will be!

I can't get worked up about this. It's not as if they're being called cunt bag or something.

YANBU OP, but I keep seeing it used for Cats and Dogs, which is even worse IMHO

YABU to care so much about something so innocuous.

I don’t get worked up over it. It “Little man or Little lady” make me cringe.

Doesn't bother me either way really. it's all subjective; if it annoys people and they don't like it then that's fair enough. I never thought about the term to be conditioning a particular type of behaviour for the future. The issue is not them growing up to be a 'man' but rather the type of man that they will grow up to be. I would rather concentrate on reinforcing the right behaviour from as early an age as possible than get hung up on names.

Yabu

This is a zombie thread from June last year

Not a parent, but I tend to call small children 'sweetheart' or 'sweetpea' if I don't know them (eg saying to a child in a shop 'excuse me sweetpea'). It's just a term of endearment, same as 'little man/lady.'

Sometimes MN loves to get professionally offended.

This is a zombie thread from June last year

Good.

I love zombie threads, me I do.

PS just realised about it being a zombie thread. Well it is Halloween.