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FoundTheVeganSort of off topic. But if you are putting a disclaimer that something is "gender neutral", just use a different word. Y'all? Fam? đ
For those that say these are inherently gender neutral, how many bros have you slept with? Male isn't the "default" human experience.
KatzastropheYour argument doesnât really work, because âbroâ isnât a word used to describe sex partners, in the same vein, you would never say âIâve slept with the boysâ, but you could use the sentence âI was hanging out with the boysâ.
Sure, I'm not really trying to play a semantics game so much as call attention to the fact that these are inherently gendered terms. If you were to say "hanging out with the girls (gender neutral)" or say "hanging out with the boys (gender neutral)", you are just being awkward and should just change the word.
Thatâs fair I suppose, to me, âbroâ is an inherently gender neutral term, though âgirlsâ is gender neutral to me in the same vein.
Adding on the âgender neutralâ is kinda redundant, and I can see why it would be annoying, actually, itâs annoying me too now, because if the writer simply used âbrosâ and not âbros (gender neutral)â, the expressionâs gender (gender/non-gendered) would not have been moved to gendered, and most people would understand it to be a gender neutral expression.