"Guys" is not gender neutral for everyone. You might find it that way, and I used to, but many women don't. Re:IRC: You're conflating different things here. Th

"Guys" is not gender neutral for everyone. You might find it that way, and I used to, but many women don't. Re:IRC: You're conflating different things here. The IRC incedent was a sexual comment. Strict nono. "guys" is something that will be frowned upon. Sexual jokes are also a nono. Just today someone made a penis joke in IRC, and was similarly told to stop. Poop jokes -- childish, maybe, and certainly frowned on by some, but not considered harmful. I don't see anything wrong with arbitrarily deciding. You're free to not play in the sandbox if you don't like the rules. The community likes those rules. And fwiw the rules don't disallow "guys". Again, you'll just be asked politely to not do that.