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to find it really really irritating when people refer to their daughters as princesses

132 replies

Notalone · 15/04/2010 10:07

I probably am but it makes me grind my teeth manically. It is especially worse on FB - I have a few friends with baby girls who's status constantly say "My little princess burped today" "My little princess is soooooo gorgeous" etc etc. what is wrong with referring to them by name? It just seems a bit precious to me.

Ok, rant over. And breathe

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Ladyanonymous · 15/04/2010 14:59

I am guilty of calling my DD a Princess kind of jokingly to her, but don't talk about her as one! ... but I know what you mean about on FB, I have a repeat offender on my friends list and it does grate on me....actually its really fucking irritating.

Xenia · 15/04/2010 15:06

It's workig class.
It's also sexist.
It also is a kind of showing off thing that the self deprecating English don't normalyl go in for.
Bad on all counts.
It's also of course inaccurate for most of us too but when has bad use of English stood in the way of the great British public?

LittleWhiteWolf · 15/04/2010 15:12

I call my 9mo DD Princess Monkeyface. Not gonna stop!

Personally I dont think 'princess' and 'girly' go hand in hand neccessarily. I was a little princess as a girl in that I loved pink and sparkly. BUT I also grew up on a riding yard so added wellies to the mix and went off for hours at a time over the acres of land to explore, catch frogs and make dams and mudpies. You can be both.

And also, some of you lot need to read up on your original fairytales. Mostly they were harsh morality tales Disney watered down the already watered down versions of the stories. Sleeping Beauty, for example, did not get woken by a kiss from the prince...

DuelingFanjo · 15/04/2010 15:13

I used to have a friend on facebook who called her son the Prince and her bump (it's a girl) princess. I always thought that must make her boyfriend the king and her the queen.

I don't have to read her annoying facebook updates anymore as she deleted me from her friends after posting this in my status update.

5DollarShake · 15/04/2010 15:39

That's hilarious, Fanjo!

sallyjaygorce · 15/04/2010 15:42

Are you sure they are referring to daughters? Maybe they have camp little boys?

princessparty · 15/04/2010 17:44

If calling your DD is going to foster a princess mentality , why wouldn't calling them names like 'stinky' (as some parents on here claim to)foster an inferiority complex ?

Xenia- is being worling class something to be ashamed of?

lockets · 15/04/2010 18:00

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DownyEmerald · 15/04/2010 18:16

YANBU
I've banned the p word in this house.

Bleatblurt · 15/04/2010 18:21

I call mine little teddy bears.

Really hope they don't grow up to shit in the woods.

princessparty · 15/04/2010 18:41

Better than in the middle of the children's play area

Narabug · 15/04/2010 18:48

or a ball pool at soft play, princessparty and Butterball .......

Nellykats · 15/04/2010 20:58

Slightly off topic perhaps, but DP took DS (20 months) to the park today. Next to him was a toddler his age with an earing and lipstick on. Dear God. Now that's what I call a real princess.

OrmRenewed · 15/04/2010 20:59

Unless it's her Maj presumably

BritFish · 15/04/2010 21:36

oooh Nellykats, dont mention earrings on babies, we havnt had that one in a while!

deste · 15/04/2010 21:37

Mine was a princess for 7 weeks a couple of years ago. She even got paid for it.

mrsruffallo · 15/04/2010 21:40

YANBU
I hate it when Dad's call their daughter 'princess'.
It makes me feel queasy

nancy75 · 15/04/2010 21:44

my ils (who live abroad) always send post to my dd to princess firstname surname.
they have somehow got all the mad aunts/uncles/greatgrandparents to do the same.
because we live so far away she often gets stuff in the post - my postman must think i have a jordan fixation and actually called her princess!

pigletmania · 15/04/2010 21:47

Well I have a little meatball, angel and beauty depending on how i feel, but i just tell dd i dont put them on my status on FB

kickassangel · 15/04/2010 21:54

i have to say that i loathe the disney Cinderella so much - all that sighing & dancing just in the hope of getting a man, and they barely glance at each other before deciding it's 'twoo lurve' and they get married. I blardy hate it!!

sadly, dd is 6, and into pink everything, but I make sure that certain dvds don't enter the house.

call her all sorts of silly names - may even have used princess, but would NEVER use it on fb.

DaydreamDolly · 15/04/2010 21:57

YANBU I can't stand status updates like that. A girl from my NCT class is the worst offender, makes me want to puke.
I, on the other hand, LOVE it when a man calls me Princess
F*ck women's lib, it makes me feel gooooood hahahahaha

Nellykats · 15/04/2010 22:00

Britfish, I actually find lipstick even worse for some reason!
But maybe I should lighten up and adorn DS with a bit of Goth black eyeliner...

Nellykats · 15/04/2010 22:00

then I can call him my little Prince of Danrkness

3billygoatsgruff · 15/04/2010 22:00

YANBU at all. It's completely vom inducing & is my current pet hate. Along with constant facebook updates of every single thing little princess does...it's brilliant that they are totally smitten by their child but they need to get a grip IMO!

usualsuspect · 15/04/2010 22:02

I don't really care TBH ..makes no difference to me what anyone calls their kids