r/comics • u/sofiatroni • Aug 28 '26

OC Gender Ew-Phoria [OC]

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u/Bsjennings Aug 28 '26

Why would it ever be acceptable for a delivery person to call you "my love"? Thats so weird

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u/TheStaffsLad Aug 28 '26

Some british people will use terms of endearment with everyone, especially older women who volunteer at museums.

I’d associate “my love” with a West Country accent.

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u/Ace_of_Sphynx128 Aug 28 '26

Literally, go to Somerset and you’ll be called ‘my love’ ‘my lovely’ etc. whether you’re a man or woman lol.

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u/TheStaffsLad Aug 28 '26

Yep, my cousin has lived in Bath since she went there for uni, pretty much every shop I get called them things. Bit odd for someone from the Black Country, but not in a nasty way.

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u/Joshgg13 Aug 28 '26

Weird, I lived there for 3 years and the number of people with West Country accents was surprisingly low. Probably because the city is like 40% students, with a large proportion of the remainder being tourists and elderly people originally from other parts of the UK

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u/saltnvinegarwazere Aug 28 '26

You reckon most shop keepers in bath are students/tourists/elderly people from other parts?

I was there recently and heard the accent all day, wonder if its where you spent time or something 

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u/Joshgg13 Aug 28 '26

Well a lot of the shops are staffed by students - I used to work in the Lakeland for example. But yeah I mainly frequented the same places (supermarkets etc) that you frequent as a resident rather than the places you'd likely go to as a tourist, so maybe that's why

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u/Ace_of_Sphynx128 Aug 28 '26

I imagine you’re more used to being called babs or duck lol (I’m from brum)

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u/TheStaffsLad Aug 28 '26

I get mate and boss man more than bab tbh. In my experience, bab is more towards women.

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u/Ace_of_Sphynx128 Aug 28 '26

True, I get mate a lot up in the north as well