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"Dude" is used when the man has not made an attempt to signal to others that he is different from everybody else by altering his appearance or habits. For inst
by Crito 11y ago
"Dude" is used when the man has not made an attempt to signal to others that he is different from everybody else by altering his appearance or habits.
For instance, if a man tells his barber "just a regular cut", he may be described as a "dude". On the other hand, if he shaves his hair into a mohawk and dyes it hot-pink, he loses his dudehood and becomes an individual.
Whenever you hear somebody use the word "dude" in a tone that makes it sound disparaging, what they are basically telling you is "I am bothered by my perception that this man conforms."
- Jun8 11y agoI have a good understanding what dude means, my question was a rhetorical one to try to deconstruct what the author meant by "white dude". How do you know a person you see for the first time at a hackerspace is a "dude"? If we accept you explanation of the disparaging use of dude, how does the woman in the hackerspace perceive what a given person conforms to? But why keep the discussion philosophical, after all a word's meaning is its use, right? As a simplistic experiment google "geek dude" and "geek" and look at the image results to try to figure out what the extra dude adds.
- Crito 11y ago> how does the woman in the hackerspace perceive what a given person conforms to? Stereotypes, basically. Visuals/fashion play a very large role, as you can see in those google queries. How they interact with others also is a factor. In my experience, shy people are less likely to be considered "dudes", while extroverts are much more likely to get the label.