Calling an unborn baby girl "a little bitch"

[Pandoraphile]

And then going on to refer to older nieces as "little bitches"?

Overheard the nail salon and I couldn't believe my ears. It wasn't being said nastily, it came across as a term of endearment

AIBU to have been shocked??

I remember an ex work colleague referring to her dd being a fucking little bitch for keeping her awake during the night. She had previously lost a ds late on in pregnancy... Worried for a long time about that little girl.

Around these parts the word cunt is a term of endearment

You must be pretty easily shocked.

Where do you live?!?

My un-born baby boy broke my rib. I called him worse. I have also described both my children as pretty unspeakable things after a night of little sleep once I'm in work with my friends - I don't mean it. Much.

Said without true malice it can be funny. Let go of your pearls dear!

Couldn't get het up about something so minor.

I would find it vile to hear.
I don't own any pearls. Just don't like vile terms being used about people especially children

Pandoraphile - I'm with you. I hate all this derogatory terminology aimed at women, using terms that are insulting to women (like cunt and bitch) under the guise that they are 'intended' as terms of endearment. Don't get me wrong - I can swear with the best of them, but the normal everyday use of words such as 'Bitch', 'Cunt' etc, really makes my hair stand on end.

And exactly, Wham - where on earth do you live that this is acceptable? I'd really like to know so that I make a point to never move there

She had previously lost a ds late on in pregnancy... Worried for a long time about that little girl
Get a grip. How is her losing a child relevant. My mum used to call me a spoilt bitch if I cost her a fortune etc, certainly wasn’t cause for anyone to worry .

No it's horrid OP and not acceptable in most social groups. She sounds rough as fuck.

Aberdeen and Perthshire the c-word is used as a term of endearment... "she's a bookie wee c" 😳

They definitely weren't talking about a litter of puppies, right?

*bonnie

Let go of your pearls dear!

Oh, how unoriginal, unfunny and incredibly patronising.

Horrid.

Wham will come on and claim she is Glaswegian or Scottish. I'd like to assure you that 99% of Glaswegians do not use the c word as a term of endearment.

What’s wrong with madam instead?

A lot depends on the tone. My mother used to call me a toe-rag, which is probably less offensive to most people, but the way she said it, it may as well have been the vilest insult you could think of.

Yes it is vile. I would be tempted to say 'do you kiss your mother with that mouth?'

Trust there to be a few posters, who think it's OK.

Maybe it's OK in your world and with the rough as a badgers arse people you knock around with; but it's NOT OK in the world of most normal, decent, well-mannered, well raised people.

Vile, horrible language, from equally vile, horrible people.

And accusing people of pearl-clutching is fucking pathetic.

Some people are just the kind of people who do that.

I had a client once who always had her small son in a buggy and always called him "a little shit" while cuddling him in tones that would make an alien think it meant "darling". She was doing a generally very good job of rising above a horrible background though, from what I gathered. But it did make me wince.

I don't care if it makes me a pearl clutcher, I'm properly horrified when I hear people use terms like that about their children (or any children). Words matter.

doodlejump - that's a load of rubbish you are talking. It's certainly not a term that any normal person would use.

I used to work with a girl who would call her kids little shits, but it seemed to be the acceptable thing to call them.

It makes me sad, if kids are called negative names by their parents, even if it's light-hearted, I do think they will believe it on some level.

I'm by no means a perfect parent but I do believe in speaking positive words to kids.

I call my unborn a little fucker for the discomfort I'm in 24/7 this will not make me a terrible mother it's just a way to vent my frustration through my exhaustion

Its nasty to call anyone names like that, and a baby or child especially so.

I'd have pulled my judgey pants so high, I'd have given myself a wedgie.