I call my dad by his first name because I couldn’t get comfortable with calling him “dad” when I was too old to call him “daddy” and started just using his name ironically lmao
this is fucking stupid. they show the special relationship you have with the people who made the choice that you should exist, and spent years of their life and great amounts of money and effort to bring you to adulthood. Your mom is your mom to you, you cannot have the same relationship with her that would with any other person in your life. Your parents shape you into the person you are, whether for better or for worse. Although it would be good to have less gendered options to refer to parents as while maintaining the affection, it is in fact good to call your parents by names which the reflect the unique relationship you have to them. Except for siblings, no one on earth has a comparable relationship to your parents.
:mao-wtf: mama and papa are basically the first things you can say. These words, or similar derivative words like mom, mum, mutter, mater, mami, mother, ma and so on are common to most languages even when there is no linguistic relationship, and get traded as loan words rapidly due to how easy they are to say for babies. So no, parental and other familial names are a key part of human culture, going back to the origins of language.
Good. Titles indicating societal position or gender are bourgeoisie and should be eliminated
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I call my dad by his first name because I couldn’t get comfortable with calling him “dad” when I was too old to call him “daddy” and started just using his name ironically lmao
this is fucking stupid. they show the special relationship you have with the people who made the choice that you should exist, and spent years of their life and great amounts of money and effort to bring you to adulthood. Your mom is your mom to you, you cannot have the same relationship with her that would with any other person in your life. Your parents shape you into the person you are, whether for better or for worse. Although it would be good to have less gendered options to refer to parents as while maintaining the affection, it is in fact good to call your parents by names which the reflect the unique relationship you have to them. Except for siblings, no one on earth has a comparable relationship to your parents.
But we’re talking about other people’s parents. Why would I call my friend’s mom anything but her name?
My sibling in Christ I fear you have misunderstood me
Isn’t it more of a vestige of feudalism?
:mao-wtf: mama and papa are basically the first things you can say. These words, or similar derivative words like mom, mum, mutter, mater, mami, mother, ma and so on are common to most languages even when there is no linguistic relationship, and get traded as loan words rapidly due to how easy they are to say for babies. So no, parental and other familial names are a key part of human culture, going back to the origins of language.
Sure but we’re talking about other people’s parents. I have no cultural connection to your mom.