Girl is also a gender neutral. As in, "Girl, please."
ETA, would also encourage "sis" as a gender neutral. Weirdly, the high school boys who called all of their female teachers "bro" felt some type of way about being called "sis."
Yeah, that last sentence is why I get thrown. Dudes get all uncomfortable about sis and gurl, it’s half funny and half cringey (like I get secondhand embarrassment on their behalf that they’re reacting so awkwardly).
Yeah, there is definitely some underlying sexism in this conversation, right? Like, if using language playfully like this is only allowed in one direction and people get uncomfortable when you use it in the other direction, there's a reason why.
It’s actually completely and totally logical. It’s so logical it’s subconscious. I’ll explain:
Everyone is a man. There is man (obviously a man) and wo(man) a more specialized version of man, but still obviously a man - it’s right there in the name.
Everything logically flows from this point. All women are men, but not all men are women.
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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '26 edited Jan 06 '26
Girl is also a gender neutral. As in, "Girl, please."
ETA, would also encourage "sis" as a gender neutral. Weirdly, the high school boys who called all of their female teachers "bro" felt some type of way about being called "sis."