1. Oh dear, Enduring Endearments BY AMY S. BEARD

3. What is a term of endearment?  A term of endearment is term meant  Endearment? The act or process of endearing.  Endearing: obsolete : to make higher in cost, value, or estimation Or to cause to become beloved or admired

4.  Angel  Babe/Baby/Baby- doll/Baby-face/Baby-girl  Beautiful/Belle  Bird  Blossom  Boo  Bumpkin  Bunny  Buttercup  Butterfly  Centerfold  Chick  Cougar  Cupcake  Cutie/Cutie-pie/Cutie- patootie  Dahlin/Darling  Dear/Dear- one/Dearie/Dearest  Dish  Doll/Doll-face/Doll-baby  Dove/Little-dove/Love- dove(y)  Dream/Dream- girl/Dreamboat  Duchess  Duck/Ducky/Duckling  Dumpling  Fox/Foxy/Foxy-lady  Girl  Glitter-bug  Gorgeous  Heartthrob  Hon/Honey/Honey- bun/Honey- bunches/Honey- bunny/Honey-pie  Hottie/Hot-stuff  Kitten/Kitty  Lady-bug  Lady/Lady-love  Lamb/Lambey- pie/Lambkin  Love/Lover/Lovely/Love -bug/Love-bird/Love- maker/Love-muffin  Main-squeeze  Muffin  Old-Lady  Peach  Pet  Pookiee  Poppet  Precious  PrincessPudding  Pumpkin  Pussy/Pussy-cat  Sex-kitten  Snicker-doodle  Snookums  Snuggle-bunny  Squidgy  Sug/Sugar/Sugar- bear/Sugar- booger/Sugar- bun/Sugar-lips/Sugar- tits  Sunshine  Sweet/Sweetie/Sweet- cheeks/Sweet- heart/Sweet-pea/Sweet- thing/Sweetie- pie/Sweetie

5. Strictly Animals  Bird  Bunny  Butterfly  Chick  Cougar  Dear/Dear-one/Dearie/Dearest  Dove/Little-dove/Love-dove(y)  Duck/Ducky/Duckling  Fox/Foxy/Foxy-lady  Glitter-bug  Honey-bee/Honey-bunny  Kitten/Kitty  Lady-bug  Lamb/Lambey-pie/Lambkin  Love-bug/Love-bird  Pet  Pussy/Pussy-cat  Sex-kitten  Snuggle-bunny  Sugar-bear  Wild-thing

6. The following argument presents animalistic “terms of endearment” applied to women in Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly and Ernest Hemmingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls are discursive tools used to oppress, objectify, and dehumanize women.

7. Research Plan Academic Journals Primary Text Secondary Text Skinny Cow Advertising (tentative)

9. Critical Questions  Why endearing?  Why accepted?  How are these ideas reflected?  What are the social affects?

10. Conclusion  The preceding pages supplement evidence undergirding the need for a discursive awakening in order to sever the nexus between animalistic endearments and female gender oppression which ultimately posits female dehumanization.