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

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

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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.