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Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by TACIXAT on Sunday December 04, 2016 @07:41PM (#13102615)
My dad and I are very casual. We enjoy fighting (wrestling), pushing each other into strangers, tampering with food, turning car seat heaters on sneakily on a hot day. Very normal for us to call each other names when these things occur. I don't think there is anything I could say to him that he'd even blink at.
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Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by cheald on Sunday December 04, 2016 @10:47PM (#13103249)
That sounds like a very healthy kind of mutual respect, even in the case of "disrespectful" names, though. It's not about the word in particular, it's about the communication of contempt behind it.
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