In The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer notes how the language of affection reduces women to foods and baby animals--honey, lamb, sugar, sweetie-pie, kitten, chick.
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Hmmm, now that is interesting. I think that's definitely a big factor in it.
Ever seen the movie, Only You, with Robert Downey Jr? Anyway, it has a scene perfect to your comment where the man calls his wife "doll" and she gets upset. He responds, "you used to love it when I called you doll". And she answers, "you don't say it like you used to." very interesting, indeed.
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Date: 2007-02-23 06:39 am (UTC)Ever seen the movie, Only You, with Robert Downey Jr? Anyway, it has a scene perfect to your comment where the man calls his wife "doll" and she gets upset. He responds, "you used to love it when I called you doll". And she answers, "you don't say it like you used to." very interesting, indeed.
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