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"Lads" is an appropriate, albeit very british, way of addressing men, which the poster above was doing. Why the noise?
by scrollaway 8y ago
"Lads" is an appropriate, albeit very british, way of addressing men, which the poster above was doing. Why the noise?
- dheral 8y agoWhy not address all readers, instead of only men?
- forcemajeure 8y agoApparently you can use 'guys' now instead
- scrollaway 8y agoThe poster above was not addressing readers, but rather three specific people.
- alexchamberlain 8y agoLittle disappointed to be so downvoted for calling this out; I don't really do it very often. Also a brit, but I didn't know that the others in the conversation were men. It's pretty easy to use `guys` instead.
- freehunter 8y ago"Guys" is just as gender-specific as "lads".
- alexchamberlain 8y agoThe defence was it was a Britishism, where guys is gender neutral.
- scrollaway 8y agoI don't understand your post/replies. Do you have a problem with people using britishisms? The "defence" spelling is also a britishism, so I'm not sure where you're going with all that. "Guys" is not any more gender neutral than "Lads" (they both are often used in a gender-neutral way, but they're etymologically male). "Folks" is what I personally use if I specifically want something gender-neutral, but "lads" is definitely appropriate if the author is speaking to men. Which brings me back to "this is a lot of noise for nothing".
- freehunter 8y agoLiterally the first definition of "guy" is "a man". "Guy" is only gender neutral when you're referring to a group of people.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoI didn't downvote you. But it was a short comment intended to convey "Oops! Sorry. My bad." So you basically replied to an apology with a suggestion that the apology had committed some greater sin. My feeling is that probably falls under the heading "Throwing the baby out with the bathwater." I don't think it qualifies as a Best Practice for improving the social climate on some metric or other. That's not intended to lecture you. I'm just trying to make conversation on a topic I find interesting. Given the nature of the beast, I'm having very mixed feelings about commenting at all.