Unpopular Opinion
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Guy comes from the burning of Guy Fawkes effigies on Bonfire Night. They would create these dolls of Fawkes where he was shabbily dressed and burn him for his prominent role in the Gunpowder Plot. Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot was not because he was an everyday man. He was trying to return the crown to being part of the Catholic church.
In the 19th century, the term guy was used to refer to a poorly dressed man. Eventually, his image changed as a freedom fighter and some, particularly Catholics, saw him as a hero in the 19th century.
Guy goes back at least a millennium and was always a male name. Its hard to know for sure, but it probably was the word for wood.
I don't know if this unpopular, it's just a contested opinion. Growing up, it was used either presumptively that masculity is the default or gender neutral. These debates are one way language changed. I don't know why people care as much as they do. Society literally doesn't fall apart because words change their meaning.
i prefer history how i envisioned it having done no research and instead making up things that seem plausible.
Don't we all. Thats a picture of me and the neighbor kids playing dolls.