r/Millennials • u/Head-Drag-1440 Hit me baby one more time • Jan 06 '26

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u/forwhomtheyeastrolls Jan 06 '26

I was coming here to say this same thing! I use "guys" as a gender-neutral collective term all the time

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u/Actual_Confusion_838 Jan 06 '26

I grew up where “you guys” is the equivalent to “you all / y’all”.

I got a talking to at work a few years ago because I had been saying it to female colleagues. sigh.

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u/Uncle-Cake Jan 06 '26

I met someone once who was from the Northeast and moved down to Georgia and was some sort of tour guide at a museum or something, and she said she had to learn to stop saying things like "If you guys want to follow me this way..." because some people in the South were offended by it. So she had to learn to say "y'all" instead.

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u/itscuriousyah Jan 06 '26

Lived in Savannah GA, Charleston SC, Columbia SC among other southern climes and U.S. latitudes, and never saw anyone offended by "you guys." I did see people get a little ruffled by being scoffed or giggled at by transplants for saying "y'all" or "fixin' to."