For the love of love!

[louiselux]

The L word keeps cropping up in the most inappropriate places, I find. 'Love' used as a pet name, Spike style, that is, as in 'put the kettle on, love'. For me, the pet name 'love' has a faintly patronising and an exceedingly mundane air, so it ticks me off to see people using it in stories to indicate Britishness. It's often used either far too often, or in completely the wrong context, like in a tender love scene or worse, during sex. If someone referred to me as 'love' during sex, I'd feel like I was either buying ten pounds of tatties off the market or stuck in some terrible film starring Robin Askwith.

*Humbug, Humbug*

Comments

[emrinalexander.livejournal.com]

I have the same feeling every time a male character calls another male (or female for that matter) "baby."

UGH.

God, I hate that. I cringe in real life, and "baby" tosses me right out of a story too.

"Love" has nearly the same effect on me, for the reasons you give.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Could be worse, I suppose. Could be 'flower', and then I'd have sudden flashes of Charlie Williams, the Yorkshire black comedian of my childhood.