Date: 22 Jan 2013 03:21 pm (UTC)
adrian_turtle: (Default)
I don't use "you guys," to address a mixed gender or female group, myself, but whether that usage bothers me depends on the *speaker*. If a woman or elderly man says it, I don't assume sexist intent the way I do if a younger man says it. Even though there hasn't been a deliberate attempt to reclaim the usage, like there is to reclaim more specifically insulting terms, members of the insulted group can use the term if they like. (And people my parents' age? Eh, I don't expect them to keep up.)
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