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[–] [email protected] -2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Me:

If someone asks a cishet guy how many guys they've been with

You:

If someone asks a cishet guy how many people they’ve been with

If you were calling me a person rather than a "guy" I would have no issue this whole time, notice how you just changed my wording to make your argument work?

I think I'll refrain from taking English language advice, or life advice from you

[–] [email protected] -2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I am calling you a person by calling you a guy, and I switched the word on purpose with another gender neutral term to emphasize the point, which you might have realized if you didn't have a complex about it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 21 hours ago

The point of what I was saying was that it's not as explicitly gender-neutral as something like "person". Thus the example of asking a cishet guy how that guy he married is doing, it just doesn't scan. It's not a huge distinction in most situations and is generally appropriate, but its also pretty clearly a passive aggressive dig when it's used in situations where it's the singular and the subject has made their gender clear.

You're welcome to dispute that it's not used as passive aggressive dig, but I'm just citing lived experience.