Someone I live with insists on calling me "bro" and "dude", despite my repeated pleas for cessation, citing ideolect as a defence.

I get that "bro" and "dude" are part of their vocabulary, but it hurts. Am I in the wrong here?

P.S. Is this the right community for this kind of question?

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This sums it up. Man, woman, cis, trans… it doesn’t matter. If you don’t want to be called something, it’s reasonable to ask that they stop.

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