There is nothing wrong with the term 'hubby'.

[pictish]

There just isn't.
This MN trend of sneering at posters for using a common term that has been deemed unfashionable...but only on mumsnet...is boring, childish and bloody rude.
If you had a go at someone for using it in rl you'd look like a dick.

AIBU?

[StopLaughingDrRoss]

I imagine Kevin off Strictly would use the word and therefore it's awful BowieFan

[WalterWhitesNipple]

Best comment on the thread award goes to bunty

[BuntyFigglesworthSpiffington]

If someone started a thread saying that their hubby had floated out to sea on an inflatable dolphin and to send help immediately I don't think that would be the right time to get snippy about the use of the word hubby. I would think 'bloody hate the word hubby' as I looked up the coastguard's telephone number though.

[YouTheCat]

People who choose not to swear and then make a massive deal about how they think it's immature to do so, are immature and have some kind of misplaced superiority complex.

I have no problem with people not swearing. It isn't compulsory. I am respectful and certainly don't swear around children or at work much .

But if I want to say 'bollockytwatwankingarses' on here, I will.

[user1474627704]

I would like the rolls eyes emoticon for silly, immature people who swear for no apparent reason

Just because you can't grasp the reason doesn't mean there isn't one. Even if the only reason is that we like to say FUCK a lot.

[BeautyGoesToBenidorm]

'Preggers' gets my goat. I see that - and hubby, little man et al - in a lot of the women's weekly disaster magazines. They're the worst for it!

[YouTheCat]

I love silly swearing. And gin.

[HeteronormativeHaybales]

I backed away slowly from this thread last night as I assumed PoppyBird had been drinking.

Clearly not so.

[PoppyBirdOnAWire]

Husband is fine. It's what I would use in RL. Online it sounds kinda smug. And possessive. In contrast, OH covers the married and the unmarried, gay husbands and wives and so on. I like it.

[LogicallyLost]

MN is weird sometimes. Hubby is ok to me, husband definitely is.

[PoppyBirdOnAWire]

"derxa

When I told him MN didn't like that saying his response was 'as if I give a fuck what MN thinks'. grin

hubby is awful. I first saw it in The Sunday Post 30 years ago. That says it all."

Precisely.

[derxa]

When I told him MN didn't like that saying his response was 'as if I give a fuck what MN thinks'.

hubby is awful. I first saw it in The Sunday Post 30 years ago. That says it all.

[MistressMerryWeather]

User that doesn't sum the thread up at all.

[itsbetterthanabox]

I regularly tell my mother not to refer to my stepdad as hubby. Don't care if I'm a dick I'm doing her a favour it's so cringe.

[PoppyBirdOnAWire]

I would like the rolls eyes emoticon for silly, immature people who swear for no apparent reason.

[MargotLovedTom]

Pictish YANBU - hubby's not a word I use myself but it grips my shit when an OP spills their guts in a post liberally sprinkled with the word and gets God knows how many responses slating them about that and completely ignoring their request for support or advice. It's shit.

As for the dumbing down and infantalising aspect - my husband refers to me as 'wor lass' - a term which has been used since Geordies lived in caves. It's hardly a recent phenomenon.

[Saci]

I should say if an OP wants to call her own husband DH or Hubby in a description I have no problem with that. I feel that pulling holes in that is just pointless and pretentious. So for that YANBU.

[Saci]

I knew someone at a baby group who used the term "How is hubby?" it made my teeth stand on edge for two reasons. Firstly, she had never met said "hubby" and secondly he is a 6ft 4 and grew up on a Brazilian cattle ranch, the word "hubby" doesn't fit him, no matter which way up you tried it on.
On here I couldn't care less. It just seems to bubbly and affectionate for someone you have never actually met. I feel the same about calling someone else's husband their DH. I try not to do that either. Same with hun, I say hun to my friends but I'm not going to use it for some random stranger on the internet.

[PoppyBirdOnAWire]

Actually, I prefer to use OH - on an Internet forum. So there you go: grab the compromise. Now there is no need to use the H word...

[PoppyBirdOnAWire]

"NavyandWhite

What greater good? confused
You think people will stop berating hubby?"

Yes, I was wondering about that greater good thing too. Maybe the OP has been poring over JS Mill.