What words do you use to describe men and women? Is it significant?

Question

When you talk to a man, or describe him using words like guy, lad, boy, man, fella, hon

or to a woman using words like lass, chick, woman, lady, babe, hon

Do you think it is significant?

What words do you normally use? When do you use them?

Answer 1

For women - darling, sweetie, woman/girl, beautiful, dude, etc.
For men - dude, darling, man, hon, sweetie, babe, etc.

I use them whenever I feel inspired by that person or because of what he/she means to me either generally or at the moment. Sometimes they come out of me naturally, other times, I may view a person as having been sweet for saying something lovely, so I call him/her "sweetie" or "darling", it all depends on the moment, there isn't one particular reason I use these terms of endearment.

However, there are also certain intimate terms which I only reserve for my closest friends, lovers or partners, some which we have created for each other, and some which are specific to what they mean to me.

Answer 2

All the guys at my kickboxing class are younger than me, the girls and the boys, so I call everyone, kid.
I think I've called my female neighbor and friend, sweetie.
It's been awhile, but I was called babe and I liked it. So that may slip out, in future and I'd use for either gender.
I probably use man and woman the most often, when I'm talking about them. If I am more familiar I use guys for both.
I have no idea what the significance is or what you are looking for, kid.
C. :)!!

Answer 3

Ms. is a very good title to use for females over the age of 20, and "Young lady" untill 25."Mame" is insulting to every woman I ever talked to! It insinuates great age, something a younger woman up to age 50 is concerned about. Lass would be cute from a white haired whiskered gentleman, but ridiculous from a peer, chick is stupid. Hon and Sweetie should never be used to a middleaged woman or elderly woman by a twenty or thirty something--demeaning, insulting their integrity and wisdom . A man being refered to as "fella" just might deck you! A man who knows who he is and respects others and himself is not a "boy", "lad" It's Mr. or Sir for any male over the age of 20, untill then "Young man" is proper.

Answer 4

I call everyone hon, or dear. If I am talking about someone I say "that guy" or "that gal". I don't see it as significant. It is more of a habit on my part I think.

Answer 5

If I'm talking to a man or a woman I usually ask their name.

edit: Other than that B*tch, Hoe, Punanny, Pr*ck, D*ckhead, Bro etc..

Answer 6

Depends on the formality or casaulity.

Sometimes it implies respect -or lack of. But mostly, how you refer to other people speaks of your own character.

Answer 7

"Do you think it is significant?"

Yeah of course.

"What words do you normally use? When do you use them?"

for guys - man, dude, pal, mate, freakin dude

for girls - chick, honey, girl, mate, dude, freakin dude

when do i use them? depends dude!

Answer 8

No words, I just stare at them like this
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and when I get their attention, I speak.

Answer 9

I call everyone dude.