Jack is a Coward. I stand with Kyle. Remember, whenever someone calls for violence, that the head of project 25 said "We are in the midst of a second American revolution., which will remain bloodless, should the left choose it to be."
Headline: How did Netflix know I was gay before I did?
Sub header: After BBC reporter Ellie House came out as gay, she realised that Netflix already seemed to know. How did that happen?
THE FIRST FUCKING LINE OF THE FUCKING ARTICLE: I realised that I was BISEXUAL in my second year of university, but Big Tech seemed to have worked it out several months before me.
I’ve noticed that “gay” is used as a more general term for members of the LGBTQ+ community, similar to how “guys” has a pretty common gender-neutral usage
“Guys” hasn’t actually been accepted as gender neutral for a number of years, due to its implicit anti-feminist bias (you’ll fit in if you act like us men).
I struggle with not using it constantly, as it was the go-to gender neutral term for my generation.
I think this is a bit regional. "Guys" sounds entirely gender neutral to my ear while "dudes" or "bro" sound specifically about men. But I know that "dude" and "bro" are used to refer to either women or men in other locations and "guys" is interpreted as being also referring to men there. I don't think there is an absolute with these particular terms.
As a Californian, I take GREAT offense at the idea of gendering “dude”.
There is no more gender neutral term than “dude.” You’re dude. I’m dude. He’s dude. She’s dude. They are dudes. The weather is dude. Animals… dudes. Kids: dudes. Elderly: dudes. Girls are dudes. Boys are dudes. Men and women are dudes. Google is dude. Your smart phone… also dude. Parking meter? Dude.
You can use it for anything… but do not gender it.
Thanks for the correction! I still hear that usage fairly often and wasn’t up with the discourse around it. Like the other reply I’m also more partial to “folks” personally (as well as “y’all”), but I think I still use “guys” out of habit on occasion
Gay is a happily accepted term for “penis+penis”, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, whatever, in the UK & Ireland. It is basically “not straight”; you can think of it as the British word for ‘queer’, because ‘queer’ still often means, well, queer. I wish you would respect British people’s choice of how they identify; America’s obsession with clinical and distinct labeling hasn’t claimed this particular lingual nuance yet. Not everything is an attack on your chosen identity.
Pasquale said: "In the act I have a great big pair of moose antlers and they’re huge things - they’ve got like these huge prongs sticking out, and the gag is I have to put them on my head and I go ‘I put too much mousse on my hair’.
"But at the end of the act the curtains came down and all my props are strewn all over the stage and they bring the lights down obviously.
“As I’m starting to put all my props away and I literally trip over my moose head,” he said.
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“Seriously, I [thought] I was going to die,” he added.
If that’s the kind of joke he’s bringing, it surely wouldn’t have been the first time he’s died on stage.
He’s carting these huge fucking antlers around on a national tour just for the lamest of lame puns. He must have workshopped this “gag” and miraculously not died on his arse, for him to decide it’s worth hauling the antlers around. Baffling.
I see what you mean, but settlers aren't really extremists in Israel. Over there "All of Judea belongs to us, the chosen people, so we have the right to chase out and murder the subhuman Arabs" is a pretty common idea.
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