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Julia is not a "dude". Julia also did not claim having created CodePen.

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LilBytes 5y ago
Dude is a unisex term. Dudette was the feminine equivalent for a while but hasn't been the case for a while. I got corrected a while back. The more you know! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude
- edoceo 5y ago
  Friend. West coast, social justice types are recently pushing back on Dude as gender neutral. That wiki link even includes a key phrase "typically male". I grew up with terms Dudes and Chicks for the gender identity. And also consider Dude to generally mean any H.Sapien. Just fair warning.. people hella sensitive about this stuff and even the assumptions from just a few years ago are not as they were. Not to just go in the weeds there, just had two days of conference with sessions on the social equity stuff. And, I don't think anyone on this thread was being intentionally rude.
  - LilBytes 5y ago
    Yeah that was more my point. If Dude is to become contentious and it's not to be identified as unisex, then so be it. It hasn't been a sex specific pronoun for me in Australia or in the UK where I use to live. As you said, I don't think anyone here was being intentionally rude.
    - edoceo 5y ago
      Oh. Oz. I've heard the language is a little more casual down there. Kevin "bloody" Wilson still making music?
  - tomc1985 5y ago
    Funny, here in coastal socal lately I have been hearing women refer to each other as "dude" or "bro" or "man" sometimes even more often than I hear men do it (And I have yet to see any guys get called out or corrected for saying "dude" or even "man" casually to a woman. Though that this is somewhat contextual) Further, I think everyone should give good pause and thought as to whether or not they really want "west coast, social justice types" to dictate acceptable mores
- yawaramin 5y ago
  'Dude' may be if you stretch it, but 'he' is not unisex: > author says that he is pretty bad at javascript but is the dude behind creating codepen. LOL
  - LilBytes 5y ago
    Yeah, I understand she's a woman. Just pointing out dude isn't sex specific. Or hasn't been in my experience.
    - remram 5y ago
      Ask your male buddies "how many dudes" they've slept with, see how gender-neutral it really is in your circles.
      - cybernautique 5y ago
        Just asked two of my male acquaintances and received an integer response. Of course, they're both bisexual, so I've no way of confirming the gender-type of these integers. Not sure I understand your point; are we bowling for pedantry?
    - purerandomness 5y ago
      How is this relevant to this thread? A commenter incorrectly assumed that a technical blog must, of course, be written by a guy. This was pointed out. Whether the word 'dude' is gender neutral or not is not helping.
- purerandomness 5y ago
  You can argue that 'dude' is gender neutral all you want. 'He', however, is never referring to a woman. There is no plausible deniability in this case. Let's not play dumb.
  - LilBytes 5y ago
    Fair enough, I had missed that.

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Dude is a unisex term. Dudette was the feminine equivalent for a while but hasn't been the case for a while. I got corrected a while back. The more you know! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude

edoceo 5y ago
Friend. West coast, social justice types are recently pushing back on Dude as gender neutral. That wiki link even includes a key phrase "typically male". I grew up with terms Dudes and Chicks for the gender identity. And also consider Dude to generally mean any H.Sapien. Just fair warning.. people hella sensitive about this stuff and even the assumptions from just a few years ago are not as they were. Not to just go in the weeds there, just had two days of conference with sessions on the social equity stuff. And, I don't think anyone on this thread was being intentionally rude.
- LilBytes 5y ago
  Yeah that was more my point. If Dude is to become contentious and it's not to be identified as unisex, then so be it. It hasn't been a sex specific pronoun for me in Australia or in the UK where I use to live. As you said, I don't think anyone here was being intentionally rude.
  - edoceo 5y ago
    Oh. Oz. I've heard the language is a little more casual down there. Kevin "bloody" Wilson still making music?
- tomc1985 5y ago
  Funny, here in coastal socal lately I have been hearing women refer to each other as "dude" or "bro" or "man" sometimes even more often than I hear men do it (And I have yet to see any guys get called out or corrected for saying "dude" or even "man" casually to a woman. Though that this is somewhat contextual) Further, I think everyone should give good pause and thought as to whether or not they really want "west coast, social justice types" to dictate acceptable mores
yawaramin 5y ago
'Dude' may be if you stretch it, but 'he' is not unisex: > author says that he is pretty bad at javascript but is the dude behind creating codepen. LOL
- LilBytes 5y ago
  Yeah, I understand she's a woman. Just pointing out dude isn't sex specific. Or hasn't been in my experience.
  - remram 5y ago
    Ask your male buddies "how many dudes" they've slept with, see how gender-neutral it really is in your circles.
    - cybernautique 5y ago
      Just asked two of my male acquaintances and received an integer response. Of course, they're both bisexual, so I've no way of confirming the gender-type of these integers. Not sure I understand your point; are we bowling for pedantry?
  - purerandomness 5y ago
    How is this relevant to this thread? A commenter incorrectly assumed that a technical blog must, of course, be written by a guy. This was pointed out. Whether the word 'dude' is gender neutral or not is not helping.
purerandomness 5y ago
You can argue that 'dude' is gender neutral all you want. 'He', however, is never referring to a woman. There is no plausible deniability in this case. Let's not play dumb.
- LilBytes 5y ago
  Fair enough, I had missed that.