I agree with her in a linguistic sense - "Guys" is an erasure of women at its root, and the programming she mentions is the historical pattern of language usage. Where I'm from, originally, "guys" is used in a gender neutral way - but it doesn't exclude the root of erasing femininity from a group. Is the use of it a pressing issue? No, not really. Do I still see more misogyny coming from those - both on the left and right - that use "y'all"? Yes. But is Alice wrong? No.
I personally leverage "you" as a collective term, or go with a generic "everyone", but I understand how language usage is ingrained.
I think people who are dismissive of women who dislike being called masculine words like " guys " " dude " " man " " bro " etc are way more likely to be misogynistic... I mean just look at the comment section of this video here... : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Dbs55pKRI
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I agree with her in a linguistic sense - "Guys" is an erasure of women at its root, and the programming she mentions is the historical pattern of language usage. Where I'm from, originally, "guys" is used in a gender neutral way - but it doesn't exclude the root of erasing femininity from a group. Is the use of it a pressing issue? No, not really. Do I still see more misogyny coming from those - both on the left and right - that use "y'all"? Yes. But is Alice wrong? No.
I personally leverage "you" as a collective term, or go with a generic "everyone", but I understand how language usage is ingrained.
People who use " y'all " are misogynistic?
The vast majority of TRA's I've encountered use "y'all".
I think people who are dismissive of women who dislike being called masculine words like " guys " " dude " " man " " bro " etc are way more likely to be misogynistic... I mean just look at the comment section of this video here... : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Dbs55pKRI
I found some real gems there like this : https://ovarit.com/o/TransLogic/92124/fake-enby-genders-are-allowed-to-be-bothered-by-androcentric-language-but-biolog