Is this not a bit weird?

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Some woman I have on FB keeps uploading pictures of her baby with the caption 'my sugar baby' Had a look at what she was tagging and it was the Gestational Diabetes UK page that are running some campaign using that caption.

Is this not a bit weird? To take a picture of an infant and call it a sugar baby (A young female or male who is financially pampered/cared for by a sugar daddy or sugar mama in exchange for companionship (i.e. sexual favors)

I'm not offended, just bemused

So weird

Oh yeah that is extremely weird

Shes refering to the baby being born after she had gestational diabetes. Nothing to do with sugar mamas or daddys..

@whatsupbuttercupx

Shes refering to the baby being born after she had gestational diabetes. Nothing to do with sugar mamas or daddys..

I obviously know that, but it's still weird when that's the far more common meaning of the phrase

I would assume the campaign is to raise awareness of gestational diabetes and to show the healthy babies that came from it? Maybe.. i dont know but i dont think its that weird

It's OK to give a phrase two different meanings. The rainbow for instance, commonly used to denote LGBT support and now also used as a sign of support for the NHS. Very few people got upset about it, and they were the types that would get upset about anything (and don't care much about the LGBT community or the NHS!).

Maybe its reclaiming the meaning to raise awareness of something important. You looked it up so it worked!

And of course rainbow babies, those born after loss.

@Orf1abc

It's OK to give a phrase two different meanings. The rainbow for instance, commonly used to denote LGBT support and now also used as a sign of support for the NHS. Very few people got upset about it, and they were the types that would get upset about anything (and don't care much about the LGBT community or the NHS!).

Just ask people why thier "NHS rainbow" only had 6 colours :p

Industry is quick to rebrand when a parade gets canceled 🤣

My initial thought was maybe she brought the baby or went through IVF so it was expensive 😂 then I read it and it made sense. I need coffee.

My first thought was the sexual term of sugar babies, probably messing up some rich people's searches through hashtags for people to pay to keep them company haha

I do think it’s a slightly strange phrase to grab hold of, bearing in mind it’s other meaning. But like you not really bothered.

This struck me as true though:

The rainbow for instance, commonly used to denote LGBT support and now also used as a sign of support for the NHS. Very few people got upset about it, and they were the types that would get upset about anything (and don't care much about the LGBT community or the NHS!).

I haaaaaaate this! I was a member of a gestational diabetes Facebook group when pregnant and so many people shared photos of their babies when they were born calling them sugar babies. Did they not know the meaning of that phrase? Did they just not care?! I found it really weird

@whatsupbuttercupx

Shes refering to the baby being born after she had gestational diabetes. Nothing to do with sugar mamas or daddys..

I would not have gotten that at all!

When someone is a sugar something I usually think what the OP originally said

Do we have to have a label for fucking everything?

It's not weird, things can have multiple meanings like the rainbows (fairly sure the group of young pre-Brownies girls are not a trans organisation).

Surely it should be "Where are all our 2020 sugar babies", not "Where is all our 2020 sugar babies"?

(The poster says "where's" )

@Soubriquet it says in the Op it was about gestational diabetes

Things can have multiple meanings but when the established meaning of a phrase had such specific and potentially negative connotations (or at least connotations you really wouldn’t want to associate with a baby), it’s a really odd choice. The last thing I would be happy doing is describing my baby using a phrase which will call to mind the usual meaning of ‘sugar baby’!

Some women in my group used ‘jelly baby’ instead. Still very naff and twee imo, but world’s better than ‘sugar baby’...

I find it far more weird that someone would associate a perfectly non-sexual word like sugar and apply it in a sexual way to a baby

I’d have automatically thought they were referencing a sexual thing too, seems so wrong to attribute something that has sexual connotations to babies, even if you’re trying to change the meaning of it

[quote whatsupbuttercupx]@Soubriquet it says in the Op it was about gestational diabetes [/quote]
I’m aware of that

Still wouldn’t have clocked on though

Some woman I have on FB keeps uploading pictures of her baby

you can only "have" people on FB if you agree. Unfriend and get on with your life

Oh dear. Who approved that marketing campaign. I imagine the hashtag filled with allsorts.... and not the liquorice kind