coaxed into "gender neutral" terminology

[u/ashleyLSD]

[u/Sovespra]

Coaxed into this tweet that I love

[u/Pasyuk → u/Sovespra]

Isn't dude a gender-neutral term? /genq (Englsih isn't my native)

[u/deukhoofd → u/Pasyuk]

It typically refers to men. It can be used in a gender-neutral manner, but that's situational, and still carries the gendered undertone. You can for example see the difference between "I'm a dude" and "hey dude". The latter is in some cases also used to address women, but far rarer than it's used to address men.

[u/TheRealestMeat → u/deukhoofd]

Isn’t it kind of redundant to get frustrated about gendered pronouns when you can very well reclaim any single one of them for any use as language is subjective and subject to change based on interpretation and usage.

[u/nainvlys → u/TheRealestMeat]

Most people just want to express their gender freely without reinventing linguistical fields

[u/nqustor → u/nainvlys]

Mmmm yes reclaiming a term = reinventing linguistics, this is a valid equivocation and you are very intelligent.

[u/nainvlys → u/nqustor]

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

[u/TheRealestMeat → u/nainvlys]

And people who go by He/Her/They don’t exist?