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if you call everyone dude and a transfem person gets mad about it, don't get defensive. just say like "sorry, i won't do it again" and don't argue "actually it's gender neutral" or "i call everyone dude". even if you do, i guarantee she's heard that argument from someone who very much does not call people they see as women dude. i certainly have

same goes double for the word guy.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

oh shit oh fuck i call any plural group of people "guys" when im working and addressing multiple customers

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

when it's a plural group of people i don't think it's as big a deal, but it would be good to find an alternative

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

angry-hex we need an american version of "comrade"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

local rednecks would murder me and local libs would probably think im calling them putin shills

kind of lose lose

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

After living in the South I stole "y'all" and I'm not giving it back. No more "dudes", "guys", or even "folks".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Y'all is good culture 😌

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

just start calling people comrades at work. people would probably find it funny

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Got to play up a thick Russian accent when you say it too

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Funny enough a plural group of people being addressed as “guys” or “dudes” is the original source of this discourse, because early feminists were annoyed by being implicitly excluded in the language of people at work and school

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

doing it to a group is implicitly excluding women, but doing it to a specific women is explicitly misgendering. personally i wish neither would happen, but when it's the former it's something that happens to cis women too, and while it sucks it's not the worst thing in the world, whereas the latter feels really bad (to me, i understand if others feel differently)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

One should feel euphoric from the casual misogyny?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Fuck, now you made me hate it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

From what I recall, referring to a group of people as “you guys” is a regional thing. I remember in that NY times dialect test that it was one of the questions that nailed me. That said, if I’m referring to group solely of women, it does seem odd, so I usually use party people or peeps in this situation. Using folks or y’all would get weird looks here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

makes sense. i think i say it because i'm originally from the more northern part of the mid atlantic and picked it up younger