I like to call men lambs, but that’s why men don’t like it. I don’t know what this has to do with...

Bears are great creatures, such funny, unforced. I’m not putting any negative meaning in this word, why be offended here?

"You are a clay barrel" - what is insulting here? It is a compliment at all. I said dumb, not dumb or dumb.
"I have a new lamb" is a normal phrase! The important thing is not what you say, but how. I speak these words gently, with love.

Of course, I will never call my father or brothers like that, but it is quite different! How can we compare?! to

I really don’t mean anything bad, and men think I’m trying to offend them. Such strange creatures.
Always blow up the problem from nothing.

c) Zaia