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Tixie SalanderDude is an universal word until you ask a heterosexual guy how many dudes he fucked
bob 
@tixie dude.
Fink 
@tixie can I get this on a shirt? ✨
Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥@tixie I've adopted "folks" as the universal word for a while already. Hope that's fine.
@schmittlauch yep very much better
Don Melton@tixie This. 💯
Roni Rolle Laukkarinen@donmelton @tixie This provokes some thoughts. My company is named "Dude" but we don't "genderize" the word. It has always meant "a person" for us. It's a short and fun word and that's why we chose it back in the days. We consider the word as "just some people". Its meaning is really down to earth for us.
Sometimes some angry people say we are "too dudes" or we should have thought about the company name or even that we discriminate women. Yet we have all kinds of people and accept everyone as they are. I wonder what's up with the word having to be that important.
Tröglödÿt
@rolle
see, that makes that pfp really weird, since it's very on the nose male coded
looking at the company web site gives the same impression, almost every photo of your office or employees is dudes and not the one or two dudettes or non-dudes that work there, and it's generally male coded in the graphical design
aethervision 
@tixie Wait. I thought that’s why they call it a Dude Ranch. I mean, you go to a horse ranch to ride a horse, it only follows that…
Jeffy 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇦 ❤️🇱🇺@aethervision @tixie I think that’s exactly why they were called that originally. When there was a demand from all those women traveling to NV to get a no-contest divorce and having to fill their…time…while waiting out the 6-week requirement.
@godofbiscuits @tixie I get you, although most of what I know of the period and practice came from watching The Women. But the initial question was slightly different in focus.
@aethervision @tixie I know. I was just providing color. “O, lamour! Lamour! Lamour!” 😃
@godofbiscuits @tixie Jungle Red.
@aethervision @tixie I believe I’ve just run out of gay. :)
BoredomFestival@tixie yes, because words never have context-dependent variation of meaning
The Doctor@tixie Depends on the circumstances. For quite a few folks I know heteroflexible is equal to heterosexual with a little "fuck it, let's try this" sprinkled on top.
evoxtribe@tixie that made me chuckle.
Kelly Guimont@tixie @donmelton I have maintained this for years. I have also detonated this particular conversation bomb on a couple of occasions to prove my point and it's always REALLY fun to watch.
Kit Sunny@tixie It's helped to see this through the lens of my UK-acculturated partner. She noted to me "dude" in US English is doing the work of two words in UK English-- "mate" and "bloke". Used in the second person, "dude" is basically "mate", which does still have a bit of a masculine tone to it (especially if a man is saying it), but is a bit more neutral. In the third person, "dude" means "bloke", and that definitely is a man. Safer to just stop using it, of course, because ambiguity.
Duress@tixie life-changing take tbh
Soren!@tixie heterosexual men are just totally wrong about the word dude. I vote genderless!
Simon Zerafa"Folks" might work if dude is likely to cause issues 🙂🤷♂️
Jay Thoden van Velzen ☁️🛡️
Mario Benfield@tixie Very funny: coming from a gay guy.
TransitBiker@tixie I’ve used guy & dude as nongendered words my whole life & will continue to do so. ❤️
NateG Voice Work@tixie this has managed to make me rethink my ‘innate’ midwestern tendency to use “guys” in the same way.
morningwind@tixie i wonder how they would feel being called ‘gal’ or ‘girlie’