I have been trying to do this, but the pressure of USA television programs, full of women using "guys" to refer to other women, is large.
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Yeah it is tough. I managed to get of "bitch" from my vocabulary and now when I hear people use it against women in person I'm shocked.
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It's funny how I pretty much automatically feel a sense of shock and alienation when I hear that word. It's becoming the same when somebody
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calls me a guy.
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I think guy was in Cali-speak to be inclusive and for a while it might have been. Now it is a problem. Losing "guys" from vocab is hard.
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I think a good test of how neutral it is where you are is to ask a straight man how many guys they have slept with.
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Now that really shows the context sensitivity of this word and indeed many words of the English language. Guys means guys, not people.
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Yep, and there's also the context of the person hearing it. I hear it as a reminder that I'm not a guy, a man might hear it as "you".
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howdy y'all
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I didn't know this was something to watch for, thanks for posting /1
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but, out of curiosity, what if "guys" is transforming into a gender neutral word? /2
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e.g. I often find myself using it when writing emails to groups that contain only women. /3
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awesome test! Ur right, clearly not neutral. But makes me want to start asking straight men how many guys they've dated
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