Much ado about nothing?

I have a problem with people calling me names.

Somebody I recently got to know, shortened my name-and although a lot of my close friends call me by the same name, and that's fine by me-this particular chap calling me that was annoying. I was thinking, I don't know you well enough for you to start being too familiar, and shouldn't you be asking me if it's fine by me to have my name shortened? A total lack of social graces!

Also, there's this particular chap-an old friend of my brothers' who's taken to calling me "sweetheart" and "darling", and although I know he doesn't mean anything by calling me that, it still irritates the heck out of me.

So, guys drop all those names, I think them cheesy. Don't call me "babe", "sugar", "baby" or "honey" either. They're just so totally not me. I got a name, three actually, and you may call me any of those.

I find the other names demeaning, derogatory. I have a mind, a personality, a name. Call me by that, if you please!

"What's in a name?", asked the Bard of Avon...."My identity", I reply.