Depends. I call a lot of my friends, or people towards whom I feel affectionate, 'sweetie.' Doesn't make any difference whether they are male or female, either. It's a Southernism I haven't tried to shake.
People who refuse to acknowledge the very real racial hatred in this country are either willfully blind or disingenuous. Try living in West Virgina, or Alabama, and then get back to me.
Thanks for the info. I won't recommend it to my friends out of the country.
I knew NetFlix won't play outside the U.S., some kind of problem with contracts and copyrights. Looks like the other legit sites are much the same.