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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 gre
by 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 agoYeah 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 agoOh. Oz. I've heard the language is a little more casual down there. Kevin "bloody" Wilson still making music?
- tomc1985 5y agoFunny, 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