Comment on Anon gets corrected
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoDepends on the context.
“Hey Brian, were you making out with a dude last night!?”
“Haha, no, that was Annie, she’s a chick, she just has short hair.”
Dude(s) and Guy(s) can be gender neutral or male-only. Girl can mean a female child, or it can mean a woman, depending on the context.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
That means it’s not gender neutral, it just means you use male as a default in most contexts.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Its gener neutral male leaning and is context specific. Like bastard or fucker.
superkret@feddit.org 1 year ago
Bastard is what you call “male leaning” because it was used for male children born outside of marriage who therefore couldn’t inherit titles.
It wasn’t used much for girls cause they couldn’t inherit titles anyway, so it didn’t matter.
“Fucker” is “male leaning” cause women were historically not seen as doing the fucking. They were fucked.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
But pegging.
Gutek8134@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I feel like it’s a PhD thesis material
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Only in the right class.