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Y'all. This ain't hard. All language is contextual. All of it is informed by the relationships the ppl in a convo have to each other.
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"Baby" can be a term of endearment from an older relative and a younger one, it can be bedroom talk between two lovers.
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If your boss said it to you, though, you might have to report him to HR. See how that works?
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"But I heard her partner call her 'baby'!" your clearly awful boss yells. "So does her aunt! Why can't I?"
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A thing we used to say in the early Code Switch days: there aren't "rules" on things like this, only context and consequences.
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The women in that sorority can say whatever they want in their little homogenous space. But we in a broader context now, Megan.
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Some words are espeecially high-context. So if you gon' sing that lyric with the camera right there, then Godspeed to you, Emma! Do you.
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But you also can't make what's okay for your sorors --- do white women call them "sorors," too? --- okay for everybody else.
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I think WW I know usually say "sorority sisters" which is a lot of unnecessary syllables imo. But I could be wrong.
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Replying to @csilverandgold
yeah I'm thinking I don't know any WW in sororities IRL? My world is overrun with Deltas, tho.
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Replying to @GeeDee215
I wd love a CS episode on sor/frat for POC. IME it might as well be an entirely different concept. My 2ndhand experience of+
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