> >Being asked to use inclusive language is a weird thing to > that is, if you consider the word 'guys' as gender bound and inclusive. I think you might be ov

> >Being asked to use inclusive language is a weird thing to > that is, if you consider the word 'guys' as gender bound and inclusive. I think you might be overlooking another possibility. The same reasoning applies if you believe that SOME OF YOUR AUDIENCE considers the word "guys" to be gender-bound. If that is true, then a reasonable person might decide that for the sake of that audience it might be polite to use a different term even if that reasonable person doesn't ascribe any gender to the term.