The yearly sexual harassment and racism training said not to use gendered terms and specifically had a slide saying not to use "you guys" with a list of alternatives.
Echoing that "you guys" doesn't feel gendered to me, though using "guy" or "guys" as a stand-in for one or multiple people who do my job is deeply irritating (especially since I work in a heavily male-dominated field.) Love when people look me in the eye knowing what I do and say shit like "yeah, I'd need a devops guy, a backend guy, and a hardware guy, but that's feasible" (where "guy" here means "engineer")
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Yeah now THAT is some bullshit.
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:yikes-1::yikes-2::yikes-2::yikes-3:
:yikes:
There's a team I work with a lot that's entirely girls except for me.
Should I be using a kinda unnatural overly casual "Y'all" or keep addressing the group as "you guys"?
Yous? Yinz?
They sometimes use "you guys" or even "we guys"
honestly "you guys" addressed to a group doesn't even feel gendered to me
I feel the same way personally, I just wanted other opinions.
You comrades
You gays
You niversities
You cranes
You niyn of Soviet Socialist Republics
"you guys" isn't gendered, it's the plural second person in midwest english.
The yearly sexual harassment and racism training said not to use gendered terms and specifically had a slide saying not to use "you guys" with a list of alternatives.
this is midwest-cultural genocide.
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Echoing that "you guys" doesn't feel gendered to me, though using "guy" or "guys" as a stand-in for one or multiple people who do my job is deeply irritating (especially since I work in a heavily male-dominated field.) Love when people look me in the eye knowing what I do and say shit like "yeah, I'd need a devops guy, a backend guy, and a hardware guy, but that's feasible" (where "guy" here means "engineer")
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