To HATE the word Hun

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It seems so patronising

Ok hun 😜

Bored much ?

Can’t stand it. My sis in law has started to use this lately
Annoys me to no end.

"Chick" or "chicken" annoys me more.

Its so annoying. I take an instant dislike to anybody who uses it. Surely this level of dislike isnt normal over a word

Well you made a post about it so no that's clearly not normal and you have to much time on your hands, HUN!

Move to the west coast of Scotland. It's pretty much only used as sectarian abuse here.

Yes I hate it, but it’s sectarian where I am.

I hate it too.

But it's a sectarian slur where I am too, so thankfully in 'real life' I rarely hear it used.

I am afraid the thread made me think of the real huns. Germans and then Attila the Hun.
www.historyinthemargins.com/2011/12/27/word-with-a-past-how-did-germany-become-the-hun/

Dont like it? Dont say it! I dont like it so i dont say it.

Two people in my life say it - one is a cunt the other is the nicest person i know

Your “patronising” is my term of endearment.

You’d better not move here then

I'm with you there OP

Aw hun, why?

I can’t get myself worked up about s word people use like that.

Could be worse, could be 'dear'... Am v v guilty of saying 'hun' or 'darl' but possibly regional / habit / cultural. Never mean to be patronising!! ....

OP, I'm with you.
I help in animal rescue where 'hun' is often preferred the method of address. But they are generally a feisty lot - when a message starts with 'hun' ("alright Hun?"), it often doesn't end well - there's something a bit 'mean girl' about it...
I'm not sure why they can't address people by their names anyway.

Chic instead of chick is worse

I'm with you OP. I can't stand it either and it makes me think less of the person using it.
'hon' would be OK I (reluctantly) suppose, but hun really makes me irate!

I don't mind it from people I know well,

I do find it odd from people I've only just met or started speaking to.
eg booking DD in to a class and had a message confirming the booking calling me hun, I find it slightly fake in that case. I'm more likely to think they just cba to learn names!

I hate hun, babe, darl, doll, chick, sweet, etc. Hate them all. I think it's because nobody I know well uses them so when someone does it always implies a kind of closeness that we don't have, which feels weird and disingenuous? Plus it seems weirdly infantilising. But hun seems to be going full circle now, it's almost used mockingly to take the piss out of the hun types, like with 'u ok hun?'

What treaclesoda said. It’s a religious slur in NI.

Hun and Babe.
Skin crawling stuff.

I don't get why it isn't 'hon'