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I see your point but guys has come to become gender neutral. Sure a guy is still male but "you guys" is anyone.
by nopassrecover 17y ago
I see your point but guys has come to become gender neutral. Sure a guy is still male but "you guys" is anyone.
- tim_chevalier 17y agoOn this point, I recommend Douglas Hofstadter's "Person Paper on Purity in Language": http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html Hofstadter makes the same point (that words that claim to be both gendered and gender-neutral are never the latter) in a less snarky way in Chapter 7 of his book _Metamagical Themas_, entitled "Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness". You can find it on Google Books.