Being called “Honey” is offensive apparently.
When virgin trains mess up and the older male train manager in the resulting conversation dismisses you with that hideously patronising word women shudder at in contexts such as these: “honey” @virgin_trainsEC.
— Emily Lucinda Cole (@EmilyLucindaRC) January 2, 2018
Oh, FFS! Seriously… Mind you in a brief display of cojones, Virgin responded appropriately to this offendatron:
Virgin Trains East Coast replied: “Sorry for the mess up Emily, would you prefer ‘pet’ or ‘love’ next time?”
Of course, this was offensive as well, so they promptly apologised.
In my time, I have been called “Pet”, “Love”, “Ducks,” “Hun”, “Dear”, “Sweetheart” and various others. I have been misgendered – much to my amusement at the double-take after a man has called me “love”, “dear” or “sweetheart”. My music teacher regularly calls me “Hun.” I have never got on my high horse and twatted about it. Probably because I am not remotely offended – being an adult – and I am not on Twitter; but I repeat myself…
Addendum:
There is always more than one side to a story…
I’d like to back up the train manager here, I was on the same carriage and she was being loud, drunk rude and obnoxious throughout the journey. He was nothing but polite and respectful, lovely man who made my day with his compliment to me
— Jordan (@Jordan_Smith97) January 2, 2018
Ah… Right… Funny how the Grauniad forgot to mention this bit…
Brings to mind The Bill and WPC Honey Harman
Next up, Grace deemed offensive, misogynist, blah bah
So, affectionately meant endearments are to be next on the leftist hit list? Which should tell even the meanest intelligence more about those ‘offended’ than a thousand detailed and peer reviewed clinical papers on serious sexual neuroses.
Encouragingly, a perusal of this woman’s twatter feed shows that the response to her tantrum are not exactly overwhelming in support. There is hope yet.
I thought Virgin’s original response was superb: succinct and apt. What a shame they subsequently apologised instead of tweeting “Foxtrot Oscar, precious snowflake”‘