Don't
call
women
"guys".
Don't
call
women
"females".
Don't
call
women
"girls".
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Yeah, I'm not perfect either. "Girls" is easy but not using "guys" is hard AF. "Bitch" I haven't used for a decade though.
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I'm pretty much in the same boat. FWIW, I think they're bad in that order guys < girls < bitch. Especially growing up in California "you guys" is used by everyone to refer to everyone. So it's gender specificity is mostly lost in practice.
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It's not though. So "how many guys have you slept with?"
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When I say not using guys is hard I mean I still don't use it in the so-called gender neutral way (to describe groups of any gender) except once or twice a year. So my slip ups aren't that often. And when I slip it's with a guy usually which helps me not feel too guilty.
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The others I just don't do. It's not hard. Calling women "girls" or "females" is really easy to avoid because I don't see them as children or animals.

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Once I had the realization about it, it was quite easy. I think a lot was leftover from my youth... when at least it made some sense!
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I also love the word "peeps" for "people". My sister's been using that one before it was cool ;)
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