Straight Dudes who call guys "Baby"

I've seen my 15 year-old first cousin once removed (formerly identifying as bisexual but now identifying as straight) refer to his male best friend as "bae" on Facebook.

I forgot to mention, he's a white punk.

r1, one day, after he gets out out jail and he's in his early 30s, you will invite him over for some beers. I foresee happy endings for both of you.

I'm old so I can get away with calling straight youngsters "baby" or "shorty".

You can't use "sweetie" or anything involving the concept of "sweet" because it implies they are effeminate and they think that's a bad thing.

I would LOVE to call youngsters 'shorty' but I'm white.

I've been called "Cracker" before.

I was called a 'Carpetbagger' once.

I was called a carpet-muncher once. Hold on, I think I might be in the wrong thread. Carry on.

R8, I'll bet you munch like a trooper, honey.

Straight dudes usually call me "faggot".

"I would never admit it in person, but it turns me on when a hot straight guy calls me "baby."

Pardon me while I barf up my dinner.

You really are the stereotypical simpering, silly queen, OP. Kudos.

Black guys have referred to other men, especially other black men, as 'baby' for decades. No gay inference as far as I can remember.

Yeah, I usually get called "faggot".

Yes, men calling other men baby goes back to the 70s in a widespread way, mainly among Black men. It was part of street macho suave talk that many Black guys did in the 70s. Currently, hip hop and urban culture have made it even more prevalent as a way for men to express swagger, endearment, and affection toward other dudes. However, in this way, only Alpha Males can use it confidently, and as such, there are times when its usage can seem like the Alpha Male is trying to insinuate that another guy is the Beta Male or is more diminutive than he is. Also, there is a perception that some guys are so suave and have so much swag that they even pour on the charm with other males by calling them baby or other similar maneuvers. These guys are securely viewed as masculine, so they don't have people questioning their manhood when they do it. Perhaps, because of the pervasiveness of hip hop among youth, I have noticed more White and Hispanic men doing the same lately. Urban culture is very interesting.

Curiously, I'm watching a rerun of "Hill Street Blues," circa 1983, while perusing the DL.

Taurean Blaque's character, black detective Neal Washington, just now called Kiel Martin's character, white detective J. D. LaRue, "Baby."

So this was going on at least 32 years ago, dolls.

Don't call me baby

Who loves ya, baby?

Babe and baby as used to describe a romantic partner (rather than a small child or immature person; those usages began in the 1400s and 1500s) can be traced to usage that began in the 19th and 20th centuries in America. Initially, the words were simply used as a form of address (men were calling each other baby in 1835, sans any romantic connotations; in the 1996 movie Swingers, Vince Vaughn's character employs the word for just about everybody).

Nobody puts Baby in the corner.

Young Thug even calls dudes "hubby." Hip hop is wide open.

Young Thug Speaks On Gay Rumors & Why He Calls His Male Friends 'Bae'

Young Thug has been running the music industry with his features. If you haven't heard about his music, we're pretty sure you've heard about Young Thug calling his male friends "Bae" and "Lover". While the world was now questioning his sexuality, he set the record straight with Bossip. During his interview, his nonchalantly stated he was not gay and it’s just a "Language."

No homo, baby.

It's not meant as a complment when they call you Baby Huey, I find.

I prefer it when they call me "slut" and "tramp"

This immediately made me think of Vince Vaughn's character in Swingers.

"And don't call me 'honey'.... [italic]honey![/italic]"

--the only thing I've ever respected Elisabeth Hasselbeck for saying

It certainly got thrown around a lot in the old Rat Pack movies of the 50s and I remember Kojak asking of males and females who loves ya baby in every episode.

"Hip hop is wide open."

Kinda like an open 'bae' window?

Some of my straight male friends call me "bae." It is quite endearing.

they call me "fay"

I like calling everyone "Baby" in that Kojack/Telly Savalas way, which was the ultimate in 70s cool.

I'm usually called sweet ass or sweet bae or sweet pee(I think they say that last one) by these guys at the gym. I just always figured they knew I was gay and were having some fun with it and me. I call them sweet ass or sweet thighs or sweet abs back.

Don't you DARE talkin' to him like that!

'I call them sweet ass or sweet thighs or sweet abs back.'

Sling that sass, baby!

I noticed that white guys are more likely to call a dude "babe," whereas Black and Latin guys are more likely to say "baby."

My African American barber and other Black dudes have called me "baby boy." I like that.

I call my friends "bb" in texts all the time, and no one has told me to cut it the hell out. Yet, anyway.

There are hot black dudes at the gym I talk to about sports. I love it when they say "baby boy" to me when we talk.

just heard guy in Kroger call another guy "baby"

turns me the heck on

Damn,and I thought Little Wayne was the ugliest mofo in the hip hop world R21 !

R17 it's Savalas baby!

Did not know Vince Vaughn was skinny!

You can say anything to a dude, as long as you deliver it in a masculine manner. I have dudes in the gym compliment my body all the time, but they do it in a "dudely" way. For instance, a straight muscle dude told me the other day, "Bro, your bod is looking straight up diesel lately. Keep it up, baby!" That is how dudes deliver endearment and admiration.

Young Thug aint ugly.

These guys are not gay, OP. Get a life, and a boyfriend.

"Micro-analysing everything straight men do to see if there's a chance that one of them will let me suck their cock as they nonchalantly watch TV football." Sad and creepy.

I get moist down there when sexy brickhouse mo'fo brothers say "wassup, bitch?" because I am a cheap whore, darling.

r48, man up, bro!

A Latin hustler called me "baby" a couple weeks ago and I got really aroused.

I have never heard any straight male refer to another straight male or gay male as baby. And it will never happen, because it doesn't work like that mary.

r51, you're not one of the "cool bros." They wouldn't be saying that around you anyway.

r51 is clueless

"baby" is versatile

In HS my jock bro Brad always called me babe.. but only when I was blowing him.

Bromo, NO Homo, Dude!

How about when dudes call you "son?"

dsdc

r51 is a gay Archie Bunker, so of course he hasn't heard "baby" thrown around him. He's on my ignore list for being a resident DL racist, anyway.

I shoot hoops with a couple of straight dudes who call me "baby" quite a bit, even when we play football. It is very hot.

A hot muscle bro at the gym calls me "boss." Yokes me up everytime he says it.

If straight men didn't need sex, they wouldn't go near women. Men like men, straight or gay.

I love it too, as long as the dude is hot!

Straight guys do NOT call another guy baby, it NEVER happens.

[quote]A hot muscle bro at the gym calls me "boss."

That's an inside insult you know. They're making fun of you.

I call all guys "honey, bunny"

r65, uh no. Guys call other guys boss in respect or simply as another way to say "dude." It is never a negative thing though. My friends say it all the time to each other.

I agree

Most people here are so out of touch mainstream mass youth culture that they should be disqualified from commenting. They didn't even know what "bae" meant.

There is this one black guy on this free chat line that I call for some phone sex relief.... he starts calling me boy ( the dynamic of him calling a white guy, me, "boy" is so sexy to me), and my cock gets so damn rigid and wet. Language can indeed be a powerful thing. Then we coach each other thru eating our own precum and showing off our bate to each other.

Uh, okay, bro

It is quite common among a certain subset of young hip hop dudes. Young Thug calls dudes "sweetheart" and "bae." SOme of yall are so clueless about youth and hip hop culture.

"I shoot hoops with a couple of straight dudes who call me "baby" quite a bit, even when we play football. It is very hot."

R60's imagination is in overdrive, desperately trying to come up with beat-off material.

Ironically, hip hop and urban culture allows men to use terms of endearment with each other more than White male culture. "Bro" is the closest thing white guys have.

'Some of yall are so clueless about youth and hip hop culture.'

Well now, really. For white gentlemen in our 60's and 70's, we are more 'with it' than most, young man.

I don't know any thugs myself.

[quote] Some of yall are so clueless about youth and hip hop culture.

I don't know how I can possibly sleep tonight.

I like it when straight men call me "kitten" or "princess."

Yea right, straight guys don't call other guys bae/baby/hunny/, not unless they have a death wish or want to be outcasted.

I live in Canada, Ontario and I swear to god I've never consciously or unconsciously heard a man use that kind of language towards another.

I was talking to a young, thuggish Hispanic dude today and I had the pleasure of making him laugh. We were about to go our separate ways, and he says "I fucks with you". Now Im glad I've heard this slang before, so I know it's no homo. But if his tired girlfriend was not several feet away, hell yes I would've acted like he was trying to come on to me. I know I could've snagged him and his gorgeous smile!

r80, yeah, dudes say that all the time. It is just a way of saying "yo, you're cool peeps; we cool bro."

I like it when a dude calls me "big guy."

R79, you need to leave Canada to find cool bros.

What kind of delusion and fantasy is going on this thread? Sad. Black straight men do NOT refer to other men as baby, not unless they want to get their ass beat or outcasted. Black guys call each other "n*gga" "bro" "son" "dawg" "man" "dude" etc. They don't call each other baby you simpering nellies

R84, I'm an actual black man in college. I hear it all the time among bruthas, even when shooting hoops.

R85 Uh huh.....

Some of you are so out of touch and isolated from regular males, you don't know basic stuff that normal people do. Guys have been calling other men "baby" for decades, it is especially common among African American males.

R87 you're the one who is out of touch. Black men call their bitches and their girlfriends baby, not other fucking men!!

r88, you sound like a nasty effeminate who has disturbing anger issues. chill.

There is even a Facebook Page dedicated to it.

r21, is evidence of a major urban celebrity doing it. He is obviously not the inventer of this, nor the only one. It is clearly is not rare.

[quote] "Guys have been calling other men "baby" for decades, it is especially common among African American males."

I concur with R87, so do pipe down and take a stresstab if your experience has been different. SHEEEESH. I have lived in San Francisco and L.A. and hear this ALL the time---in the media AND on the street.

I live in DC. Of course, I hear black guys say it, but I have noticed more young white "swag" types saying it to guys too

"shooting hoops" is gay code for whacking off to Raw Strokes, right?

you're all delusional

R88 read the responses on the first page of this thread, so clearly I'm not the crazy one. Maybe this is a regional thing, but it's not common like you twats are trying to suggest. Young Thug is considered by most rap fans and black folk as a cock sucking down-low fruitcake so I wouldn't use him as an example lol

Only black men are allowed to call other guys "Baby" otherwise it's racist.

Pretty common in DC and NC. Maybe it's a southern thing. Even had a white male mechanic call me "baby, but he talked "black."

Black guys do this ALL THE TIME!

It is usually not said in a gay way but in an affectionate "bro" manner. It's the urban equivalent of "bro."

Who loves ya, baby?

Baby, Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me, Bro.

Bros

So hot

"Baby, You're A Rich Man"---- Beatles, 1967. Once again, the Fab Four invent stuff early on.

See, even white dudes say it.

It could be a secret code for "Do you wanna fuck?"

Bros are even kissing these days

hot!

No, I haven't, OP.

We already know it turns you on, babe!

Right now, all my friends say "son" a lot. As in, "Come on, son, those shoes are whack."

so sweet bro

I use baby all the time when I meet my black male friends. #nohomo

I love "bae" as a term of endearment. It's actually an acronym for "before anyone else," not short for "baby."

As long as you say it in a masculine bro manner, it's all good.

Yep, it's how you say it. The delivery makes the difference in social acceptability. It's gotta be said in a masculine manner

Elder gay thread. You can tell, by how confused you all sound by this.

If the dude saying it to me is hot, it can be very flattering

Nice

I get turned on with hot buff black and Latin Dudes at the gym call me baby or boss. Very erotic feel to it

R115 and R116 are correct. Just like using "bro" slang with the most flaming affectation would not be acceptable with most of them.

There is this hot black personal trainer at my gym that hit it off with me from the start. He comes around to me while working out and says stuff like, "looking great, baby." Last week, while on the elliptical, and said, "you beastin, bro," while putting his hands on my waist. I told him, "Just trying to be like you when I grow up, bro." He laughed and blushed. His bod is so hot. And his swag is off the charts.

Hotttttt, R122.

It's just not my bag, baby.

Huh r124?

R122 Lucky you. Come back and tell us more, not if, but when there is more to tell.

hmmmm

I mean.....this is a "thing" from the '70s. And because this is a post on a messageboard, the nuance of the pronunciation is lost. You're romanticizing it, but it's just the equivilent of saying "What's happening, brother."

"Equivalent"^^^Jesus, my ghetto-ass spell check didn't pick that up

There is hot jacked black dude at my gym who calls guys "baby," but in the tough thug way.

R108, I got mad luv for this white boy!

I hired a rough trade, Cubano hustler from Miami once.

He called me "baby" and talked to me like a girl he cared about.

SO FUCKING HOT

A song for OP:

Some black dudes will call me "Chief."

John Williams is one of them.

There is this big buff muscle black athletic dude I work out with who calls me "boss" and sometimes "baby." I play it off when he says it, but inSide I am so turned on....

I jjjik

If a dude is hot and macho and calls me "baby," I instantly get hot. A lot of black and Latin guys do this while I work in with them at Gym

My dad has been saying that my whole life. Him and his guy friends actually.

R138 Me too. But the guy has to be like you said.

ddsa

Hawt

Just reading about it gives me a huge erection, bro.

Odell Beckham Jr

"Boss" has become the popular term of endearment between dudes today

My father used to call my mom baby and I always thought it was sweet.

Black construction worker called me baby the other day. I also was instantly hard.

R147, same thing happened to me on sidewalk outside my job! It was very hot the way he said it to me!

Black and urban guys said it to dudes in a way that is at once macho, while yet the endearing

It really is a black, Latin, and white hip hop thing

R148 as soon as he said I had a pavlovian response and dropped to me knees. He just looked at me.

Hmmmm

Ha! Just walked by food truck with a hot Latin or Arab guy working. He yelled out to me, "Come on baby, we got a chicken special for you! We'll hook you up right."

These stories made me so HARD bro!

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Mmmmm

I love being called "boss."

Just wow 😳

I love it when a hot bro Calls me “boss!”

Rni e Z

I like it when stranger call me “baby.”

I get called "Slim" all the time, and I'm not.

I also occasionally get called "Captain" by black people What's up with that?

One time a straight guy I didn't know called me "Sugar Bear" but I don't think it was a compliment.

I was just at a bbq restaurant, and a hot Latin guy just walked up the cute frat boy cashier and said, “Wassup sexy” with a swagged out demeanor. They then gave each other full bro hugs. I was so turned on.

Nice

R150 "White" is no where in the equation.

That is strictly an urban black and latin thing. White men who "try" to speak like that are desperately trying to be something they're not.

As far as hip-hop goes. That too comes from urban Afro-Latin culture. Again, there's no european ethnicity in the mix at all.

The white man ain't apart of this either.

R267, do you realize many white kids and young people grow up not just immersed in hip hop culture today, but also hanging around and socialized with Latin and black People?

Call me by my name.......

Not cool

I love being called “boss” my hot guys. Gets me sprung

In the book IN COLD BLOOD, Dick refers to Perry as “honey,” or “baby,” or “darling" throughout. I remember finding it endearing when I first read it.

It’s huge among urban men, the brothas.

I guess it's no different from Latin men calling each other 'papi.'

In NOLA people call everybody "baby." It's like "Hon" is Bal'mer.

Oh no, baby, what is you doin?

[quote] I noticed that white guys are more likely to call a dude "babe”.

And it’s very hetero when they do R35!

There is a tendency of hip hop games to say “baby” to guys

My buddies do this

I love how dudebros flirt with other dudes

OP, your response should always be: "And the name isn't 'baby,' it's Janet! 'Miss Jackson,' IF YO' NASTY!!"