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?

I find husband conveys the relationship perfectly adequately - in a neat, perfectly comprehensible two syllables

My husband has a name which I try to use in RL rather than a label. I'd appreciate the same for myself.

Hubby is as bad as hun.

OP I agree with you. I don't use the words 'hun', 'hubby' or 'bubba' but they don't incite me to cringe, sneer or write someone off either.

I really dislike the abbreviations such as DH and DP far more than 'hubby' so I generally don't use them either.

I don't use hubby but it's not as bad as Hubster, Hub Meister, Hubbareeno, Hubby McHubberson or Hubbykins. I've not been to netmums honest

Absolutely. These posts here goading me and sneering at me for bringing this up are serving my argument perfectly.
They are showing up the posters that I assume are responsible for needlessly berating others looking for advice, company or support, over the utter nothingness of using an innocuous term that they happen to dislike.

So thank you Poppy and Co...please continue to reveal yourselves as the petty and arrogant emotional juveniles that you paint yourselves as. It illustrates my point to a tee and is all for the greater good in the end.

Ah mcjubly I love "holibobs"

And my gay housemates one "holigays" :)

It's not any more 'twee' or 'cringe' then adding 'dear/darling' before it.

But people do it regardless because it's MN convention, like mindless conformists.

I always find it pathetic when people pull up others over their choice of words because of their own hang ups. It's like they have nothing of value to contribute.

YANBU.

You should try spending all day sitting with men going on about "the missus" for their wives/girlfriends. I want to punch them, especially as they only call the SAHMs / one that have "a little job at the school" it.

It's a bit 1970's.

It is as cringy as called a female "the wife" "the beeadknife" "her who must be obeyed" etc.

I think it's very much a case of each to their own but, I do automatically judge people who call their DP's as hubby as looking like Howard & Hilda from Ever Decressin Circles & wearing matching cardigans

TheNaze - then perhaps you would benefit from keeping an open mind and not making snap judgements about the worth of others, over that which exists only in your imagination.

If someone in real life said it whilst in conversation, nobody would comment so why do it on mn? Same with saying should of etc. I think people take things way to seriously on here sometimes. It's just a chat forum.

Well, I ploughed through 4 pages and got a bit bored with the 'ooh cringe' brigade. It's just a word. It doesn't particularly have nasty overtones to it. I wouldn't choose to use it myself.

I have no problem with anyone having a little inward cringe when they see a word they dislike. I'm pretty sure we all do that from time to time. However, when it's used to bash an OP (as was the case on a thread last week where the OP was looking for some advice) it just makes those going on about it look like utter twats who lack empathy and have nothing useful to add.

So carry on pulling people up on the use of a word that doesn't harm you in any way, if that's how you get your kicks, but I reserve the right to put you on my mental list of bastards to avoid.

Totally agree with Pictish.

Usual, you're on a lot of bastard lists.

Would you actually pull someone up on using the word on a thread, especially if the word had very little to do with the thread or if it was someone asking for advice?

YouTheCat

Nice gif!