To call people Hun?

[hellcarryingahandbag]

Hi all,
I'm going start by saying that I've NEVER EVER used Nethuns! I clearly watch too much reality television as I call everybody Hun (not Hon which is too Americanised). I also call everybody darling. Am I an MN abomination?

Growing up and living in the west coast of Scotland, hun, is not an affectionate term.

Just what l was going to say Chergar!

Yes, an abomination.
Hun- urgh. Makes me shudder.

Yes
Its infantilising, patronising and offensive

I hate being called hun. It makes me want to vomit.

Whilst I am not one of those MNetters who hate any form of endearment, and I cope well with being called Dear, or Love, or MeDuck (love that one) I would hate to be called Hun. It's way too familiar.

I hate it when someone calls me 'hun' it sounds very fake.

I feel it's extremely insincere. Sometimes patronising.

Your wordz your rulez Hun.

I hate "hun" in any context including MN.

I can’t stand it. It makes me cringe.

I can cope with 'hun'. It's 'love' that drives me mad! Ugh...

Cringey as fuck

I hate hun. Lovely, darling, lovey, babe I'm fine with and use sometimes, hun really makes me go eurghhh.

I like endearments most of the time, but hun does come across as insincere and I don't like being called it. Darling, dear, love, and even luvvy I quite like (depending on who says it, mind!).

My best friend and I call each other hun but that started as a bit of a piss take of all the ‘U ok hun?’ type things on Facebook. I would hate anyone else to call me it though

Can’t bear the word hun. Hon or hunny.

Hunny??? How old are you? Fucking 12??

Gives me full on rage

Same thoughts as chergar and TitianaTitsling

I use hun all the time it’s one of my favourite words along with lush, being called pet gives me an angry twitch though

Why the need to use ‘endearments’, just call people by their name . I really dislike any sort of endearment, to me it’s just lazy as people can’t be bothered to remember, or find out, your name.

I have a colleague who is the sweetest thing. So far I have been called Hun, Sweet, Bub and Boo but I actually can't get offended because she's just so lovely.

(My mum used to call me Honey/Hon but she was Canadian)

Why do you think ‘hon’ is Americanised? It’s just the correct abbreviation of the word ‘honey’. Which in itself is awful, but the distortion of that into ‘hun’ is even worse. It comes across as vacuous and insincere, and whenever I see it I just assume the person using it isn’t very bright. Sorry!

I hate it and dear which sounds patronisingly. What I really hate is ‘doll’ i
Used to go to college with a girl who called everyone ‘doll’.

It's a word the Younique selling, chavtastic Facebook robots use.

If someone ever calls me that, I disengage.

Haters gunna hate Hun, HTH.