[maryz]

That’s true whenever the behavior is truly boorish, but compliments are nice, and some females consider compliments, “sexual harassment”!

There was a thread recently about a Southern "conservative" talk show host really down on Cain for saying to a receptionist serving tea, "Darlin', will you doctor my tea for me?" The comments here seemed to center on whether "doctor my tea" was a double-entendre (which would be a new one on me!), but I remember when the feminists took a major nutty over casual endearments like "darlin'," "honey," "sweetie" as degrading, demeaning and insulting.

I have a feeling these are more common in the South, but they're certainly not rare in the North!

[DoctorBulldog]

Yup. There's an elderly woman at our local gas station who often calls me, "sweetie." Of course, I'm pretty sure she refers to all of her regular customers as sweeties. It's called being polite. Same with Mr. Cain.

As Freeper Aria likes to say, "Feminists are nuts.....or wish they had em....or something like that."

Cheers

[MNJohnnie]

There was a thread recently about a Southern "conservative" talk show host really down on Cain

The talk show host is from Iowa not the South. Down here no one would of batted an eye at what Cain said. I get called "darling", "sweetie", "hon" by women down here all the time

Any well mannered decent man here are use to being treated this way. Southern women are not afraid to be women.

BTW, the host who is all in a tizzy happens to be a huge Bachmann guy. Notice the HOST, not the woman in question, is the one making an issue of this.