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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

In the US southwest dude and possibly bro are gender neutral.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Dude" was something I learned as gender neutral from TV very very far from the US southwest. I learned here not to use it as much as I did because it's really not considered gender neutral by lots of our trans and/or female comrades.

I do wish it was totally gender neutral though. Rocket Power was fuckin cool

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It is hit or miss. I have a been with cis women using it for each other. I was on a date with a Trans comrade and I habitually used dude like I would with a cis woman and it was awkward and I had to rethink some stuff

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Same. Being an ESL student in the 2000s and picking up words from pop culture, a lot of my vocabulary wasn't exactly inclusive. Of course I've learned since then.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Dude is gender neutral unless someone doesn't want to be called it and 'bro' is masculine but 'bruh' isn't.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

This really is a Galaxy Brain take, "bruh" is the neutral conjugation of "bro," who knew centrist

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can't take full credit. This was figured out in a group between me and a jury of lesbians when I went out drinking with a co worker and her friend one time. We made a few more similar breakthroughs but the fact that even one was remembered is a miracle.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I'm an nb who asks to be called bruh

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I believe this is a standard across most Latin languages, Slavic languages, and at least one other indo-European language. I think that the Finno-Ugreks avoid this by not having gender at the noun.

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