Language Matters: Stop Using "Guys" to Address Mix-Gender Groups https://subfictional.com/language-matters-stop-using-guys-to-address-mix-gender-groups/ … via @christi3k
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Replying to @o_guest @christi3k
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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Replying to @russel_winder @christi3k
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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Replying to @o_guest @christi3k
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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Replying to @russel_winder @christi3k
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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Replying to @o_guest @christi3k
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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