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[darchildre]

Well, today broke my 15-month streak of "not being called mildly demeaning and condescending pet names by people who don't know me."

Look, I'm glad that things are opening up and the patrons are coming back to the library but it does mean that the people (essentially strangers or, at best, acquaintances) who feel like they can call me 'honey' or 'sweetheart', or refer to me and my coworkers collectively as 'you girls' (the youngest of us is 30) with complete impunity are also back. And I haven't missed them at all.

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[silveradept]

Yeah. I suspect there's a high correlation between people who see library workers in this diminutive form and people who give the greatest grief about masking requirements and other such safety measures.

I don't miss those folks, either, but they'll be coming back.