I would like to formally declare my support for the acceptance of the non-gender-specific usage of 'guy'. We can do it, folks. With just a little bit of effort,

I would like to formally declare my support for the acceptance of the non-gender-specific usage of 'guy'. We can do it, folks. With just a little bit of effort, we can finally have a serious option for reducing the effort required to write socially-appropriate Internet commentary. We need your help to save us from the hell of verbose non-gender specificity.