So I’ve realized that in conversations I’ll use traditional terms for men as general terms for all genders, both singularly and for groups. I always mean it well, but I’ve been thinking that it’s not as inclusive to women/trans people.

For example I would say:

“What’s up guys?” “How’s it going man?” "Good job, my dude!” etc.

Replacing these terms with person, people, etc sounds awkward. Y’all works but sounds very southern US (nowhere near where I am located) so it sounds out of place.

So what are some better options?

Edit: thanks for all the answers peoples, I appreciate the honest ones and some of the funny ones.

The simplest approach is to just drop the usage of guys, man, etc. Folks for groups and mate for singular appeal to me when I do want to add one in between friends.

  • fᵣₑfᵢ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, I agree with you gal, while we’re at it I wish we could degender “gal”, “chick”, and “doll” too. Equality for all!

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      8 months ago

      This sounds not to dissimilar to those who argued that legalizing gay marriage would lead to people marrying horses or their cars.

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        8 months ago

        How’s that? I’m not arguing against anything, I said I want more words to be disgendered

        How come people seem to only want words that were originally masculine coded words to be disgendered, but don’t want that for words that are originally feminine coded?