🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Jun 24

Hey all y'all need to stop using "guys" in mixed company.

- My trans girlfriend is not a guy.
- My cis girlfriend is not a guy.
- I'm not a guy (or a girl, but that's not relevant here).

Misgendering is misgendering—even if "everyone's doing it".

Patriarchy shouldn't be the default.

#FuckThePatriarchy #Feminist #LGBTQ+ #Rant

Show threadViolet PixelJun 24
@alice

Finally someone said it, this "guys" and "bro" thing is so annoying
Show thread HyperSoop 
@violetpixel @alice for the record "sib" is an okay alternative to "bro", i know some would disagree but i'm fine with it, it becomes natural if you use it
Jun 24 at 6:07amWeb
Show threadKagan MacTane (he/him)Jun 24

@soop @violetpixel @alice Also "fam".

I wonder: if we try, can we get "coz", which was big in Shakespeare's time, to make a comeback? Then we'd have *three* gender-neutral replacements for "bro/bruh", and we could start making it so each of them had slightly different connotations!

Show threadWearyBonnieJun 25
@kagan
Interesting - I think if I used coz (though here it would be cuz) here, it would sound like I was appropriating First Nations/Indigenous culture
@soop @violetpixel @alice
Show threadeestileib (she/hers)Jun 25

@3TomatoesShort @kagan @soop @violetpixel @alice

"Cuz" was pretty well used in Alabama in the 90s when I lived there. I was a Cuz to several people.