🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 3 months agoAnon gets correctedsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up120
arrow-up120imageAnon gets correctedsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 3 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoDepends 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.
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThat means it’s not gender neutral, it just means you use male as a default in most contexts.
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.
That means it’s not gender neutral, it just means you use male as a default in most contexts.