Having overthrown all codes of sacred conduct, the neo-Pharisee desperately casts about for new codes of sacred conduct to cling to. Sad!https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1033421277363625986 …
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On the other hand you just know there are probably some masculinists who are bent out of shape because the term “guys” is being eroded by common usage into a nearly gender-neutral term. So, shrugs, y’know?
Maybe, but they ain't getting published in the Atlantic.
Meanwhile, I started noticing "y'all" as shibboleth/tic like a year ago.
In what sense? As a thing to be avoided or promoted?
Well a few years ago there was an abortive movement telling people to avoid "y'all" because it was appropriating Black vernacular, but that was too absurd to get traction.
In the last year it's been very popular with woke types in the Northeast and Northwest, I think overtly because 'you guys' is misogynist (the argument of the Atlantic article) but covertly (and ironically) because it feels like solidarity with black people.
Desire for the Other is a complex thing.
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