What it says. The more I think about it, the weirder it is. It’s in every song, every movie. Obviously no one connects this word with, you know, an actual baby. (RIGHT???)
why and how did we get here?
Posted Sep 16, 2023, 11:39 AM UTC
I believe it comes from the desire to take care of your partner, protect them, and to make them feel taken care of and safe. Which is very similar to how a parent might treat their baby. So it's like you're telling your partner "I'm gonna take care of you as if you were my baby". Or something along those lines. By now though, the word "baby" to refer to a romantic partner has become so entrenched as to take on a meaning of its own and doesn't necessarily reference anything to do with actual babies. But if you think about it too literally then yeah it might sound pretty weird, I don't personally like it.
Thank you for agreeing that it has pretty much become a separate word. I just find it bizarre that in a world where people go berserk at the very mention of epstein, etc, something so glaring is entrenched right in our most common vocabulary and it just goes whoooosh.
Dunno but I hate it
I have three terms of endearment that I use frequently: darling, baby, and cutie.
Baby is reserved exclusively for my cats because I basically treat them like my children, and they act like spoiled toddlers. I definitely feel like a parental figure towards my cats, and my cats definitely see me as their caretaker and source of love and affection.
Cutie is reserved for animals in general, bugs included.
And darling is just what I use for anyone especially dear to me, cats and my pet spiders included. Spiders do actually make great pets.
I love animals too… the spiders are unusual, are they tarantulas? You’ve probably seen the sub r/spiderpaws.
I have a grass spider and four unidentified cobweb spiders of the same classification. A lot of spider species aren’t well documented. I used to have a cellar spider as well.
Do they live very long? I saw a news article about how sad researchers were when the spider they’d been observing for 40 years died. She was a south american species iirc
Depends on the species. Some live for around 2 years, sometimes shorter, sometimes longer.
Also, I’ve not seen that sub before, but I love spider toes. Lol
Thanks! :)
Lots of people find it weird
they do? well, good on them for thinking about it LOL. But it’s just so everywhere