And if you asked them, "Hey guys, raise your hand if you use the web" you'd get men and women raising their hands. "the guys" != "guys" in this case. The word i

And if you asked them, "Hey guys, raise your hand if you use the web" you'd get men and women raising their hands. "the guys" != "guys" in this case. The word is very - or awfully, depending on your point of view - ambiguous, and can be used in a gender neutral/ambiguous way, like third-person plural pronouns in other languages.