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This seems to be a big cliche in movies, particularly in 80s movies, but prevalent in any silly, romantic-comedy Hollywood waste of celluloid: grown women in their late teens up to late 20s calling their father "daddy".
I see this over and over, typically in plots involving weddings and maddeningly disorganized family events, daughter visiting home from college, daughter telling her father about her hard life, etc etc. In these movies, the fathers usually act stupid and perplexed about their daughters' behavior.
I just have to know - where and who are these women in real life who still say "daddy" at age 26? I have yet to hear this, ever. I think it's some sort of demeaning, weird sexual connotation being promoted by show business stereotypes to keep young women in their place.
What I'd love to see are movies with grown men calling their fathers "daddy". Puts a totally different feeling out there.
This seems to be a big cliche in movies, particularly in 80s movies, but prevalent in any silly, romantic-comedy Hollywood waste of celluloid: grown women in their late teens up to late 20s calling their father "daddy".
I see this over and over, typically in plots involving weddings and maddeningly disorganized family events, daughter visiting home from college, daughter telling her father about her hard life, etc etc. In these movies, the fathers usually act stupid and perplexed about their daughters' behavior.
I just have to know - where and who are these women in real life who still say "daddy" at age 26? I have yet to hear this, ever. I think it's some sort of demeaning, weird sexual connotation being promoted by show business stereotypes to keep young women in their place.
What I'd love to see are movies with grown men calling their fathers "daddy". Puts a totally different feeling out there.
You obviously haven't spent any time with Southern men
My husband and I just watched 'Meet the parents', and remarked on this (Pam calling her father "Daddy" and how strange it seemed).
I never referred to my father as 'Daddy', even when I was a child. He was always 'Father', 'Sir', or rarely, 'Dad'. But maybe that's because I grew up in a strict military family?
This is definitely a North/South thing. EVERYONE I know born and raised in the South calls their father daddy (men and women).....EVERYONE I know from the North says Dad.
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What bugs me more is the term "Baby". Being a grown woman, I would cringe in horror if some man called me "baby"...but I guess it's all generational.
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