🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 7 days agoAnon gets correctedsh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square206fedilinkarrow-up1905arrow-down140
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minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up26arrow-down1·7 days agoDepends on the context. “Hey Brian, were you making out with a dude last night!?” “Haha, no, that was Annie, she’s a chick, she just has short hair.” Dude(s) and Guy(s) can be gender neutral or male-only. Girl can mean a female child, or it can mean a woman, depending on the context.
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down17·7 days agoThat means it’s not gender neutral, it just means you use male as a default in most contexts.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up24·7 days agoIts gener neutral male leaning and is context specific. Like bastard or fucker.
minus-squareGutek8134@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·7 days agoI feel like it’s a PhD thesis material
Depends on the context.
“Hey Brian, were you making out with a dude last night!?”
“Haha, no, that was Annie, she’s a chick, she just has short hair.”
Dude(s) and Guy(s) can be gender neutral or male-only. Girl can mean a female child, or it can mean a woman, depending on the context.
That means it’s not gender neutral, it just means you use male as a default in most contexts.
Its gener neutral male leaning and is context specific. Like bastard or fucker.
I feel like it’s a PhD thesis material
Only in the right class.