Does it bother anyone to be told "good girl"?

[Flaming_Redhead]

No one has said it to me lately, but I love it! There was this one who would tell me, "Good girl! You made a happy plate!" when I'd eaten all of my dinner. *ggls* Since I rather like to be treated as a little girl, it never bothered me at all.

[StormKat]

When the guy who introduced me to this world first began our dominance struggle, him saying "good girl" would provoke me to smack him one (which didn't go over particularly well with him, suprisingly ). Over time, I went from bristling at those words, to accepting them, to being happy to hear them. I learned to take them for what they were - recognition of something I'd done well.

[lozzy]

To me it entirely depends on the context. In most situations I'm more than happy to be told I'm a 'good girl'. But sometimes I feel really demeaned by it, for example if I've worked really hard to acomplish something under my own accord and someone dissmisses me with 'oh good girl' then I feel patronised and upset,...

Although of course sometimes it's meant to cause that reaction... in which case in the *long run* i enjoy it...

hmmm generally i like it, is what im trying to say, i think.

[leah06]

To me it entirely depends on the context. In most situations I'm more than happy to be told I'm a 'good girl'. But sometimes I feel really demeaned by it, for example if I've worked really hard to acomplish something under my own accord and someone dissmisses me with 'oh good girl' then I feel patronised and upset,...

Although of course sometimes it's meant to cause that reaction... in which case in the *long run* i enjoy it...

hmmm generally i like it, is what im trying to say, i think.

Yes, I wonder what reaction it's meant to cause. If he wants me to feel somewhat belittled, in a sort of sweet way, then it's working - and why mess with a system that works?