Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Meanwhile: dudes, guys, homies, fellas, bois, bros, lads, laddie, mates, geezers, chaps, gents, boss, hoss, cheif, buddy, pal, son, sonny, sonny boy, muchacho, hombre, old timer, Mac, Joe…
“Yeah what’s up?”
I don’t think we need to cancel Guys and Dolls just yet.
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I love that half of these are fully gender neutral terms of endearment in Australia 😂
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Honestly a lot of them start out as or still contextually imply “males” in the US, but can be used gender neutrally as well now too. Like “how you guys doing” vs “hanging out with the guys.”
MouldyCat@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
It’s interesting isn’t it? “Guys” can include women, and can even be a group of only women, but you can’t talk about a single woman as a guy - “I snogged this gorgeous guy last night”.
lunarul@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Using “guys” for a group of only women works only in 2nd person. You can say “I love you guys!” to a group of women, but you can’t say “I was hanging out with the guys” when talking about the same group.
Linedotdatdot@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
Which just so happens to be the perfect segue for me to pitch my proposal to make ‘cunt’ the de facto (gender neutral, naturally) pronoun/collective pronoun.
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m on board!
I’m a big fan of the word cunt in all of its current uses it’s my preferred slang term for my own, though it’s rare to find someone who’s not taken aback by that in the bedroom.
Would it be a grammatically consistent pronoun? “oh, someone left cunt wallet, I hope cunt come get it” or do we need a cunt/cunter situation? So cunt can collect cunter wallet.