🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)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 threadCassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 24
@alice I personally really like "folks" as an alternative. Lots of good options!
Show threadAnyia, hazardous 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Jun 24
@xgranade @alice Mmm, folx/folks is my preferred one these days, though my circle of friends has always seen "guys" as all-inclusive, both in user and usee(? 🤔) senses.
Show threadLisaJun 24
@anyia @xgranade @alice
Random Anecdote:
When I was in grade 6 we had a relief teacher from the USA who (after offending half the class) insisted "in america 'guys' means boys and girls"... then someone called out "you're not in Kansas anymore Todo."
Show threadqwertzalotl

@TicklishHoneyBee @anyia @xgranade @alice

Same here: American Professor in Germany. For Americanistics 🙄 Same bullshit...

Jun 24 at 11:12amWeb
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKJun 24
@qwertzalotl @TicklishHoneyBee @anyia @xgranade @alice quite recently the Northern British term "yous" (equivalent to USA "y'all") has made its way to London and the South, and is increasingly used as a gender neutral term for a mixed group of people..
Show threadBernie Isn't In Epstein FilesJun 24
@vfrmedia @qwertzalotl @TicklishHoneyBee @anyia @xgranade @alice I had no idea "yous" was a thing in Britain. It shows up in American dialectical charts not too far from where I grew up. I never heard it spoken myself but heard of people who had. Evidently it's spelled "youse" here, but I imagine it's the same word.
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKJun 24
@BernieDoesIt @qwertzalotl @TicklishHoneyBee @anyia @xgranade @alice
the spelling with the extra e is also common in Britain (both are interchangeable). I heard Northerners I encountered on the rave scene using it 30+ years ago but it seems to have travelled South comparatively recently, literally in the last couple of years..
Show threadcrabbyJun 24

And here I always thought that "yous" originated from Ireland.

@vfrmedia @qwertzalotl @TicklishHoneyBee @anyia @xgranade @alice

Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKJun 24

@crabby @qwertzalotl @TicklishHoneyBee @anyia @xgranade @alice it may have originated from Scots (or indeed been popular in both Scotland and Ireland, and then spread across Britain over the years)

https://dsl.ac.uk/results/%22yese%22

Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: Search Results

Show threadQuamatocJul 4
@qwertzalotl
I mean, "Leute" is already gender neutral. And a valid translation of "guys"...