Re: Gender (was: Homosexuality and gender identity)

>You girls?! ;)))) (or "You dolls", as I've seen quite often the expression
>"guys and dolls" in the spam I receive on my hotmail address ;))) )
Years ago, I found it imprudent to use gendered terms like "guys" re: mixed
groups or all female groups due to the (not fully unfounded) vehement
feminist response. Which is why I stick to "y'all" or "you" or "they".
Because of similar feminist response, I mentally place  "girls" or "girlz"
in a category similar to (but less socially locked than) forms such as
"faggot" and "nigga". Being gay, were I to say "faggot" it'd be potentially
less volatile than a straight man saying it; similarly with a woman saying
"girls".

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