Comment on Anon gets corrected
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months ago
That means it’s not gender neutral, it just means you use male as a default in most contexts.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Its gener neutral male leaning and is context specific. Like bastard or fucker.
superkret@feddit.org 10 months 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 10 months ago
But pegging.
Gutek8134@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I feel like it’s a PhD thesis material
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Only in the right class.