Do men like being called cute?

I called a guy I know/like cute a while back and he went off at me! He said "dont ever call me that, it's so INSULTING". I'm like... uhhh.. okayyy. :|

i told a fwb "you are so precocious, it's adorable" - but that was to deter him from being a dick to a mutual friend.

he did not realize he was being a dick and got mad at me, and then screwed up an 80s pop culture reference.

woof absent context my post abt HRC upthread seems like a total dick post. maybe it wasnt great w/ context but it seems worse w/ time

love being called cute

this was a guy who bragged about his first instrument being hammered dulcimer at age 5.

yah i like being called cuet now

if my first instrument had been hammered dulcimer at age 5 i would brag my life away tbh, that is way cool. i mean, ok, all that really says is 'my parents are obnoxiously indulgent' but when i was a small child i was totally fascinated by the cimbalom and that would have been my absolute dream.

i told a male friend he was adorable last week, he seemed to take it well.

Totally down with being called cute. Handsome is for old men.

i am fine w/ anything that the person considers a compliment tbh

being called cute makes me go swoony and bashful and bat my eyelashes

Haha I cannot imagine you being like that at ALL.

i take the safe route and tell people i find them attractive

Handsome is something you say to someone who needs a compliment but you can't bring yourself to lie and say cute or hot or sexy or good-looking or attractive. Cute is great.

Cute can be used in many ways, from enthusiastically swoony, to dismissive or infantilizing.

yeah to me there's a difference between "cute" and "sexy"- "cute" is for, I dunno, kittens or puppies. Not potential sexual partners.

girls around the office use either "cute" or "hot", nearly interchangeably. as in "omg who's the new cute/hot guy?!???!". i'd say the only difference is "hot" guy is 1 degree of attractiveness about "cute" guy.

I accept all compliments

"cute" will get you laid iirc

I don't recall ever being called cute (and I looked uncannily like Donny Osmond most of my social life). It would have been nice.

:(

i think tbh the diff between 'cute' & 'hot' is 10lbs or so

I am going to start telling guys they look neotenous.

i think tbh the diff between 'cute' & 'hot' is 10lbs or so

i get both from my gf so i must have some major weight oscillations

they look neotenous

As Stephen J. Gould famously pointed out, Mickey Mouse displayed ever more neotony as he aged. nagl imo.

haha, better be careful!

I say that because "haha, better be careful" is the only phrase Mickey Mouse says, in my imagination.

I've actually been called neotenic!

!!!
I have only seen pics of you but you have way too angle-y a face* to be considered neotenic imo. You do have crazy huge eyes, tho, maybe that's why that was said?

*trying to think of a non-weird way to say this & failing, it is agl tho do not worry

Me, I basically look the same now as I did at age eight. This is not a thread about chubby cheek chicks tho.