https://twitter.com/poorlyhidden/status/1455520837658943488

  • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    3 years ago

    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"

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      honestly "you guys" addressed to a group doesn't even feel gendered to me

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      3 years ago

      "you guys" isn't gendered, it's the plural second person in midwest english.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      3 years ago

      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")