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.