make sure you ask your trans/non binary friends what they do and don’t like to be called 😊 it can mean a lot, if your unaware

  • Arkaelus@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Multiple sources, including Merriam-Webster, Cambridge and Oxford state that “dude” is a masculine noun, synonymous with man, guy, etc., so I disagree with this. As an exclamation, sure, as it’s not referring to anyone in particular, so it can be taken as an impersonal interjection.

      • Arkaelus@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Well, judging by the myriad dictionaries out there, this word has been gendered well before this subject’s been broached.

        • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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          9 months ago

          Language changes.

          If you’re younger than 40 you grew up in a world where dude was a gender neutral term.

          But you do you and gender it and keep maintaining arbitrary genders for words that don’t need them.