Side note, and I'm a feminist, "guys" is attempting to become a gender-neutral pronoun in english similar to "y'all". People from New York use it to refer to a

Side note, and I'm a feminist, "guys" is attempting to become a gender-neutral pronoun in english similar to "y'all". People from New York use it to refer to a group of people. I've even hear groups of only women address each other this way. "Do you guys wanna get some pizza together?" "Girls" would imply that the gender is known to be all female, and "gals" is once again, very hokey and southern like "y'all" is to non-southerners. It's imperfect but we could always just invent a new word to fix it. I don't say "do you people wanna get some pizza", I say, "does everyone want to get some pizza". In this case, I would say "since most of the users on this newsgroup", which is a context specific example.