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[–] nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeahhh, check that dudes hard drives

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Dudette's hard drive, let's not misgender here. I hear they like that.

[–] wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

In the wise words of Kel Mitchell, "I'm a dude, he's a dude, 'cause we're all dudes. (Hey!)"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i mean, let's open that can of worms. i've been using dude gender neutral my entire life. my wife is a dude. i'm enby though, so i might be projecting a bit i will admit.

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Alright, that's fair I guess. I can see it be gender neutral, I'm just used to it referring to guys. Plus, I like the way dudette sounds.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i mean, i know someone who got their phd in linguistics making a graph of "how do people pronounce [i forget what the word was] here" in the US [edit and Canada i forgot they went up to Medicine Hat for part of the study]. someone else with "do you call it soda, pop, or soda pop (shut up atlanta you coke fiends you don't count)". maybe they were masters degrees and their phds were something else i forget this was decades ago. i don't know enough of the prereqs, but "is dude masculine or gender neutral" would be a fun study and maybe pay for me to go back to college for a decade. (because i would need to learn more than hobby linguistics)

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Drug test him and the communion wine too while you're at it