If it's unacceptable for someone in public office to call someone "Sweetie", and I say "if", then why wasn't Paula Bennett sacked for her "Zip it, Sweetie" comment in parliament? Even on a good day, New Zealanders [male and female] swing between corny Puritanism and foul-mouthed savagery.

Ref: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11359727

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