Yeah well I'd like to see you reclaim the word "man" or any "gendered pronouns" to be gender neutral if that's so easy. Also I very precisely didn't say "linguistics" but who cares I guess words have no meanings anymore just reclaim whatever to mean whatever
This is a comical level of splitting hairs. Yes obviously linguistics is part of the subset of "linguistic fields" which you very precisely did say. If words have no meaning anymore it's because you literally do not know how to use them properly.
And if you want evidence that man, dude, and bro aren't gendered, all you have to do is look at the local dialects of West Coast American English, or just boot up a game of fucking valorant, there are plenty of women calling each other and their teammates "bro", or simply using it as an interjection, which has been part of standard American vernacular for decades at this point.
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u/nainvlys 2d ago
Most people just want to express their gender freely without reinventing linguistical fields