I grew up hearing everyone, including girls, saying “you guys,” but I know that’s gendered and incorrect
If you and everyone around you understands "you guys" to refer to any gender, how is it gendered?
There's probably some rule written in some book says "'You guys' only refers to men", but this doesn't reflect the way anyone uses the language.
If you text a group of men and women "you guys come at 3:30 to help set up, everyone else try to be here by 4", they're gonna have no idea that you wanted only the men to show up early.
If you and everyone around you understands "you guys" to refer to any gender, how is it gendered?
There's probably some rule written in some book says "'You guys' only refers to men", but this doesn't reflect the way anyone uses the language.
If you text a group of men and women "you guys come at 3:30 to help set up, everyone else try to be here by 4", they're gonna have no idea that you wanted only the men to show up early.
"I just fucked a guy" = I am gay. I think the word "guy" is gendered.
The general rule seems to be that in most contexts, "guy" is gendered, "guys" isn't, but not always.
Eg, I could say "I fucked 7 guys last week", and it's still gendered. I could say "They hired some guy to help out", and it's not