• @[email protected]
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    251 month ago

    Depends on the context.

    “Hey Brian, were you making out with a dude last night!?”

    “Haha, no, that was Annie, she’s a chick, she just has short hair.”

    Dude(s) and Guy(s) can be gender neutral or male-only. Girl can mean a female child, or it can mean a woman, depending on the context.

    • @[email protected]
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      -121 month ago

      That means it’s not gender neutral, it just means you use male as a default in most contexts.

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          1 month ago

          “Bastard” is what you call “male leaning” because it was used for male children born outside of marriage who therefore couldn’t inherit titles.
          It wasn’t used much for girls cause they couldn’t inherit titles anyway, so it didn’t matter.

          “Fucker” is “male leaning” cause women were historically not seen as doing the fucking. They were fucked.

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        21 month ago

        I feel like it’s a PhD thesis material