# Who's Your Daddy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 26, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917 "2000-07-26T15:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/21 "2000-07-27T01:53:15Z")
I always thought it meant your pimp… ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/22 "2000-07-27T04:25:05Z")
From my understanding it’s a joke about having really nasty sex with a woman. You’re in total control of her and making her say you’re her daddy. I’d guess it really became popular when the Greaseman was still on the airwaves. (He’s probably on somewhere… just not here in Atlanta anymore) ---
**Author:** ![darkcool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@darkcool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darkcool)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/23 "2000-07-27T06:04:56Z")
In 1970 we used it in a general sense, like after scoring a basket or winning a game for example. Sort of like ‘who’s better than you?’ ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/24 "2000-07-29T07:45:06Z")
Hello, my name is evilbeth (“Hi, evilbeth”) and I admit that I use this phrase _way_ more often than is really necessary! (Not that it is ever _necessary_ but you know what I mean) For some reason, I just think it’s funny. Incidentally, I use it in the sense labdude explained–a “who’s your sugar daddy” way. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/25 "2000-07-29T07:54:19Z")
My very submissive (in bed - the rest of the time he was a nagging, prying control freak) ex-boyfriend wanted me to call him son and let him call me daddy, which was weird because he is actually older than I am. That boy has issues. ---
**Author:** ![Viscera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@Viscera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viscera)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/26 "2000-07-29T16:39:49Z")
funneefarmer sez: > [@](#): > > I’ve always thought that it meant that you just dominated the other person in some pursuit Me too. I almost always use it as a taunt, or sometimes a light-hearted gloat among friends. Wouldn’t say this to a stranger or an acquaintance. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/27 "2000-07-30T00:27:42Z")
Oh, and don’t forget: “Dont you love her madly…wanna be her daddy…” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/28 "2000-07-30T00:30:42Z")
Thanks, everybody. I think Labdude’s “Sgar Daddy” explanation covers it. Sometimes I can be extremely dense. But I still suspect that most people who use this phrase have no idea what it means. ---
**Author:** ![Zarathustra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/898d66/32.png) [@Zarathustra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zarathustra)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/29 "2000-07-30T08:36:53Z")
> [@](#): > > . . . I still suspect that most people who use this phrase have no idea what it means. I’ll bet Woody Allen knows. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/30 "2000-07-30T13:48:36Z")
Well now ::jumping in late here:: and issue I can relate to. A few years ago a girl I kinda knew and I got together. After a fun night out and a few cocktails, well, things got going rather nicely for me. During the act, I blurted out ‘who’s your daddy, bitch’. Before everyone and their mother comes after me one this, yes it was probably the most innappropriate thing I’ve ever said. Not PC in the slightest. However, rather than slapping the shit out of me, it inspired her to even greater lengths! “Talk dirty to me big boy!” I was at a loss. I don’t know about the others around here, but trying to come up with dirty things to say, at an awkward moment no less, is a bit difficult. My roommate at the time had the same thing happen to him. The girl went nuts and wanted him to dominate her. He, being less of a voyeur than I, started saying things about his underwear. From the way he described it, it ruined the mood she was in rather quickly. It gave us all a laugh the following day, but not what I think she wanted. As others have pointed out. I think it has little to do with the comment and more to do with the domination facter. I would never use this as a pick-up line. I think you’d get your ass handed to you pretty fast if you did. Save it for the woman you love. I think you’d be surprised at how they react. Man. I’ve been sitting here hesitating to submit this. But it did happen. She was never offended and we ended up having a few flings that both of us seemed to enjoy. Ended very friendly. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/31 "2000-07-30T15:14:46Z")
Please don’t remind me I’m a parent. . . for just 10 minutes in bed, let me be a person, \*please. \* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917.md?page=1)