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Exactly!
"Guys" is gender exclusion.
"Nagging" is shaming women for asking someone to do what they committed to do.
"Pussy" is gender bias that women are weak.
It's all bullshit.
For those who defend the use of any of these because we know what they mean, stop being a little shit. Just change! It's not that hard.
Idk, I'm not sure it's really that deep in most modern vernacular. Out of all social issues, being critical of people using slang like this who don't intentionally mean it to be gender exclusive or biased is a choice you can make. I just think there's bigger issues facing women than "guys" and "pussy" slang.
I think anyone making meaningful efforts with material results in those areas probably gets a pass. For everyone else what's their excuse?
It might not be the most pressing issue, but it is one of the ones we have the most direct control over changing. And it's fucking easy to do.
What I mean is that the vast majority of people using that slang in modern times aren't associating it in the way you're implying. The words virtually have no meaning in those contexts other than, guys = general term for any person present / pussy = being a coward. I get the root of it being sexist, but changing decades of slang when it isn't actually that insulting is how we annoyed everyone. Marc Maron's Panicked special covers this topic pretty well, I feel.
There's plenty of people that find masculine default language insulting. I don't expect people to change how they talk in general; but I find it wild how many people absolutely lose their shit over "Oh, please don't include me in 'you guys'." or "Please don't use man/dude/bro on me."
Betty White had a great take on "Pussy" forgive me not remembering it correctly, but she joked more than once that it's strange to use that word to call someone weak, those things take a pounding and usually, ask for more!
I totally agree with her! Call someone balls or scrotum or something. As someone who's old enough to have sat on one once, those fucking things are weak sauce! 😭😭😭
I do think calling someone a "scrotum" is an insult, but not one that implies being weak.
I've always understood pussy (as in afraid, not the vagina meaning) to be related to cats?
I love the "I call everyone dude" shtick being responded with "So you fuck dudes?". Shuts those type up pretty quickly.
According to the hit 1997 movie Good Burger, we're all dudes
I like thinking of it as cats.
I used to use dude a ton too. That seems to be a lot less negatively impactful for whatever reason.
is short for pusillanimous. and yes, my wife is a dude.
Nagging doesn't always have to do with commitment.
Hypothetically speaking, if I asked you for a cigarette every 15 seconds that would be considered nagging.
Fair point. Though I've never heard the phrase being used towards a man.
I've usually heard it as pestering if directed at a guy. And it's usually nagging if it's about chores. Although I've also heard pestering directed at women. So it mostly seems chore based.
I've got several male mates who are moany, naggy bastards
😂
Can I call you a dickhead?