Can we have some official rulings on gender neutraling some words?
I would really like it if
*guy
*fellow
*bitch
*cowboy
could all be considered applicable to all. Whose department is this? Do we have Suzy Dent on here yet?
I would really like it if
*guy
*fellow
*bitch
*cowboy
could all be considered applicable to all. Whose department is this? Do we have Suzy Dent on here yet?
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Already is in Ireland.
For years I've used "chaps" and "fellow" to mean anyone.
I don’t feel they’re ready for prime time yet
But yeah, consensus clearly that they go back in the drawer. Shame though.
Nick Frost in Shaun of the Dead opens with it, that's how broadly it was used.
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TO THE PUB! Quick!
Dude is gender neutral when spoken at someone, but not as a descriptor.
I don't want "male terms to now be universal" I want "the funnest terms to now all be universal"
But, it turns out, patriarchy rather fucks with this.
Y'know the more I hear about it, the less keen I am on it...
Don't you have to be able to pee through twenty mattresses to be a princess?
- Folkaroni
- Peeps
- Y'alls
- Cowpoke
For insults:
- Sourpits
- Blackboot (For bigots)
- Shitheel
- Numbskull
Bitch no longer has the same ring once creativity hits.
Do you just hate being lumped in in general or is it especially irksome?
Now, if that isn't a profession where we could have adopted "actress" as the single word to use, I really don't know what is.
We should just go through them and alternate.
Toss a coin to see if it is male or female to start off.
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Peeps
Folk
Homies
Proles
Crew
Old bean/beans
Rabble
I’ve absolutely no idea how this started.
(I do know this isn't how language works, it's just having been educated in a Woodhousian/All male school there's a joyful scooping-up-of-everyone that those words give me that they don't ...
Would happily trade off lots of these with some default female ones, but I think women tend to have less "Hail Fellow well met!" in their discourse than men have
Folks is my go-to neutral group of people word.
And vague terms like "everyone" "all" work well.
See, as a person who acts, I think this is the one that makes MOST sense. There's absolutely zero difference in the job based on gender.
I assume, because women previously weren't allowed to be actors, when they were, the term actress was adopted to connote otherness
Repeatedly.
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Mate is fine, I reckon
...but I guess it's less gendered than a lot of other slang
But while it’s sometimes seen as gender neutral, some of the straight men claiming it as neutral get really upset when you then ask them how many guys they’ve slept with 🤷♂️
I tend to use ‘folk’ more often now.