Right now you treat this as an awkward brush-off. Hopefully, if things go as planned, this will become increasingly treated as low, insensitive sexism, and peop

Right now you treat this as an awkward brush-off. Hopefully, if things go as planned, this will become increasingly treated as low, insensitive sexism, and people who never learn would grow old to be the innocent elderly sexists who simply didn't keep up with the times. Hopefully the fact that right now it seems unwarranted to politely correct someone for saying "guys" in the name of spreading awareness on gender issues will change. And hopefully this hurtful, alienating comeback will not be possible to justify as "brush-off" any longer. It's a work in progress.