What would you say if your husband told you to stop squawking?

Squawk:

(of a person) say something in a loud, discordant tone.
"‘What are you doing?’ she squawked"
complain or protest about something.
"he is well known for squawking about price-fixing at local gas pumps"

It's an idiom.

Just bop him one.
to hit someone or something, especially in a friendly way
It's another idiom.

I'd have pecked him ferociously!

icanhandthemback

I'd have pecked him ferociously!

Little birdie flying high
Dropped a message from the sky

She has told him not to use it, but he still does. He knows it upsets her.

I'd say..... Speak to me like that again and you'll hear what squawking is really like. Now wise up!

How long has he been like this to you?

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Callistemon21 🤣🤣

We have two threads going on here. One is about the vocabulary used. The other is about the context.

The vocabulary is innocuous. the context isn't.

Thanks MOnica, as ever, neatly summed up.

I agree, Monica.

Maybe a divorce might be the best result.

I would have slapped his legs and sent him to bed without any tea !

So I would cease all comms altogether but if he has a matter of extreme urgency, he may squawk you on emergency code 7700.
At all other times you will remain remain on “listening squawk code 7000” but this is a monitoring service only.
All the best, Kimberly, SportAir Flying Club!!!!

Is that the worse you’ve had from a husband
Mine sticks his tongue at me ( yes…like a three year old!)…or wags his hands at me in a dismissive fashion!! Or…. When he wanted my attention would ‘ whistle’ yes! Like a dog! I’d take squawking. Mine doesn’t do it now as he’s gone into full time care after me caring for him for 25 years after his stroke! This behaviour wasn’t stroke induced …he’s done it from day 1 of marriage! Apparently he did it to his mother and sisters with no reprimands from parents …that’s where all this behaviour starts…..I blame parents!😂😂

I have one like that - he says “what are you going on about” - I always feel like saying F off but now just calmly leave the room (if it suits me) …it’s usually about a topic I have discussed but he had his ‘deaf ears’ on when I was speaking …twit!
Saying what your DH said is offensive and you should tell him to stop using that kind of language - I will if you will 👍😘

I emphasise - my DH who also has some interesting issues not dissimilar to those mentioned will snap "Don't start" the minute I challenge or try to raise a subject he might be uncomfortable with. It is very hurtful and fills me with a sort of impotent rage which is hard to get rid of. My usual response is " I haven't started but I will if you carry on". On the whole though I just avoid the conflict......

Plain rude and offensive.

For goodness sake this seems like nothing very much. Surely it’s not enough to dwell on. Just deal with the situation as seems fit at the time then move on.
Everyone seems to want drama in their life these days and want to draw everyone else in.

When I read the title of the post it made me laugh. And if my husband had said that to me I would definitely have laughed, we would both laugh about it. It wouldn't offend me. I've certainly heard it before. As paddyanne says life's too short to get upset over a word! Why is everyone so hypersensitive these days, have we all lost our sense of humour.

I would have told him how disrespectful that was especially in front of your daughter and asked him to apologise in front of her. I would also tell him that if he refused then I wouldn't pollute his ears by speaking to him again until he did so.

I would have told him to eff off…disrespectful pig!

DH once called me a "cloth-eared rag" because I misheard something. 49 years on it's become a family joke-saying. Didn't bother me then, and anyway we both now wear hearing aids . I guess it depends on the manner of saying it

Phew, I'm so glad I read to the end of the thread before commenting, because some have caught the gist of the OP's post rather than being literal and seeing only the words.

Of a similar context -
My husband introduced me to various people at his Club as "his first wife". There would be a "oh, I didn't know you'd been married before", and his reply would be "I haven't been, I just like to keep her on her toes". First time I laughed along with the others. By the - 6th? 7th? 8th, over several years, I felt utterly humiliated and despite me asking he would continue to say it. One lovely gent looked at him askance and said "I call my wife my Queen". Still didn't stop him.

We've been divorced 2 years. His current partner has been married twice before ....

It upset me, I felt humiliated, I asked him every time after the first few times not to say it, but he still did. Anyone want to tell me it's just words? Anyone want to tell me life's too short? Please don't trivialise the OP's feelings on this, advise certainly but until you've stood in her shoes perhaps don't poo-poo it as "seeking drama".

It's disrespectful and demeaning. I think that we women are extra-sensitive to anything that implies we aren't being listened to - because of course we haven't been listened to for centuries. It feels like a patriarchy-infused remark and as you've asked him in the past not to use it, it's extra-infuriating. I'm sorry you are sad. My husband regularly makes me sad (and mad) in similar ways, but I think it's because we expect too much of the average male, when we enter marriage. Romance, understanding, empathy, being really listened to - many men just can't offer these things. Maybe it was better back in the 'old' days, when the hunters departed for days, brought back the food, we all celebrated and conceived children and they went off again before the gloss wore off!

Tell him squawkers don’t cook, wash, clean, shop etc..
And don’t do anything for him for a week, or until he begs forgiveness for his disparaging remark.