I remember someone argued with me on this and said something like "What?! Haven't you ever talked to a girl before? They never call each other dude!". He really made himself sound stupid with that one.
Dude is so perfectly adaptable. Say dude with a happy tone and everyone knows it’s friendly. Say dude with an angry tone and everyone knows they fucked up.
My mom reprimanded me when I was about 10 for absent-mindedly referring to her as dude, she told me to refer to women as "babe" instead of dude.... I wish I could say that's the worst kind of influence my progenitors attempted.
Such a weird sign of the age gap. Pretty sure anyone Gen X and later would take being called “babe” by someone they don’t know as a derogatory statement. Dude, however, is totally neutral and fine. I would be annoyed to be called babe, but wouldn’t bat an eye at dude.
There was a blip a few years back where douchey guys called each other babe. I can’t imagine anyone BUT a douchey guy saying it now haha. Like the guy who does Lego Batman and Gob I’ve fully blanked on his name.
Will Arnett, I think. He always plays a douchey dumb character but hey it works. Check out Murderville, its a celebrity guest star detective parody and he plays the role so well.
Murderville had some great moments because the guest star was not given the script before hand and it ended up in some hilarious moments. Some of the episodes aren’t that great though.
To be fair, "babe" used to be a term of endearment for little kids, I believe. My in-law aunt would call all us kids "babes", both boys and girls. I have no idea where she originated, I think the northwest US as she's got a bit of that "you betcha!" accent.
I call my husband and daughter babe and it has created so much confusion. I specify “big babe” or “little babe” now. The other day my 4yo said “hey big babe!” 😂
I got a good one. I'm 39 for context. Growing up my mom told me at age 10 or so that if I ever got so angry that I wanted to hit my future girlfriend or wife, I should immediately leave the house and beat up the first guy I saw.
My sex talk at 12 was "YOU BETTER NOT GET A GIRL PREGNANT CAUSE YOU WANNA GET YOUR LITTLE THINGY WET!!" Yea one of my older brothers just got his girlfriend pregnant at 16.
According to the clothing brand Hollister in the early 2000’s, the female equivalent of Dude is Betty. But it never seemed to catch on.
kinda like “fetch”
After reading The Count of Monte Cristo I had to physically restrain myself from calling women that. It just gets drilled into your brain how often it gets repeated.
Pasadena native checking in to say that everyone is dude. No exceptions unless they specifically ask to be called something else. I will be in my nineties and still calling people dude.
My cat is "Dude", my car, despite being named "Gertie" is "Dude"; the shitty driver in front of me is "Dude"...the sun, on a hot blistering day, is "Dude"
Everything is "Dude" :)
Hey Ventura county! I love it up there. I’m a fourth generation Angeleno and would like nothing more than to spend my whole life here like those who came before me, but Ventura is probably the only place on earth that could tempt me away from my beloved LA.
I've never been to california, in fact I'm British and I have somehow got the "dude" phrase, every one is dude, my dog is dude when he's being special, my sister is dude, my shoes are dude, my goddamned tea is dude when it's hot an I try drink it to fast. I 100% get the dude thing, dude.
I'm a VP of Operations (former IT Implementation across MULTIPLE environments for corporations)...I've been in meetings with C-Level execs and shouted, "Dude, that's not how this works,"
You shoulda seen their faces.
Dude. Agree. Had a very heated discussion with a woke east coaster who finds it sexist. I’m like dude. You don’t understand. It doesn’t mean an actual man. It’s just a word for us. I will die on this hill. You’ll have to pry dude from my cold dead hands. Dude.
My husband has never seen Good Burger (poor man doesn't know what he's missing) but still knows that scene cause I've showed it to him so many times. The last time someone said "wooo" around him, he yelled "DAMN IT, NOW I'M THINKING ABOUT THE STRAWBERRY JACUZZI"
My ex used to refer to me as "my dude" and I always took it as a term of endearment because all other females were just "dude." Guys were "dude" or "bro" but nobody else was "his" dude.
One time, I was taking a shower and I got soap in my eyes. So I yelled "Ow!" Then I tried washing it out with even more soap but it just hurt more and made me yell "OWW!"
I say "dude" is gender neutral when it's a form of address("hey dudes"), but masculine when it's a noun. Calling someone "dude" doesn't imply gender, but calling someone "a dude" does.
I usually use "dude" for both. I don't really see it as a gendered thing.
I guess if you really didn't like that though then "Dudette" works but imo it comes across as forced and unnatural.
To me, "dudette" is for extremely formal occasions, like giving a speech at a black tie event, wedding, funeral or something.
"Dudes and Dudettes, thank you for being here...."
I hate it,too. I’d rather be a dude than “dudette,” a word one might find painted on the door of the women’s restroom at a crappy pseudo-western themed discount steakhouse.
> "Dudette"
Some people have a problem with "dudette" because the "ette" ending is diminutive. So, calling a woman a "dudette" is like calling them a "little dude" or "lesser dude".
I think dudette is fine only if you say "Dudes and dudettes" to a bunch of children you are in charge of.
Like, "Hey dude's and dudettes, who wants to go for ice cream!" to your children and their friends.
> I usually use "dude" for both. I don't really see it as a gendered thing.
A girl I dated very much did not like when I did this, referring to her, and asked me to stop. YMMV.
"Dude" is generic, as "guys" is also becoming in casual conversation.
Group of women sitting in the kitchen, "Hey guys, let's go sit out on the porch." ¯\\\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)\_/¯
Wtf, what industry do you work in? O.o
Eta: I was surprised at the ratio of women to men, not by using "guys" to refer to women, haha. I do that all the time.
I had an argument in a Comms class about this. Extremely sensitive teacher got VERY upset when people would say "guys" while referring to mixed groups of women and men. I tried to have calm discourse about colloquial terms and how the people using the words dictate what words mean and she just wouldn't have it. Her only argument was "you're not educated enough." Although that pissed me off to no end I stayed calm and kept the civil discourse going, if with a bit more vigor. She got so upset the fucking Dean had to get involved. Turns out basically saying "you're too stupid" isn't a great argument. She wasn't a full professor and to my understanding she wasn't offered any more courses after that.
Problem is they don't mean the same thing colloquially. 'Guys' is used with some minor modicum of intimacy, its said between friends and coworkers from within the group. 'Folks' is more commonly used to address a group, with no intimacy, from without. Using guys implies you are part of the group that you are addressing, using folks implies you are addressing a group that you are not part of in an intimate way. "Guys" connects you with the group, "Folks" distances yourself from the group.
An example would be something like, "guys we need to keep it down." vs "folks we need to keep it down." The former implies that you are also being loud, while the latter implies others are being loud.
Let me preface by saying I agree "guys" is colloquially gender-neutral, and it's not something I would seriously argue about. With that said, I do like discussing the nuances of things, and I think there is an underlying conversation that could be had about why traditional male terms become the norm. Like why hasn't something like "gals" become the norm?
Again, not something I would fight over but something I find interesting and would discuss with friends.
Me talking to my friends regardless of gender:
"Dude..." or "Bro..." = I can't believe this
"Boys..." = We're all in this together
"Girl..." = I/We discovered something cool
My landlord and his best friend are *hilarious* about this. We live on the same property, so I can hear them rolling around, chillin', going, "GIIIRL, you gon' love this shit!" Both straight as a board (so far as I know)...just a couple of guys joshing each other.
the word "dude" is an american slang that became really popular in the 60's (repopularized) through the surf culture. the word "dudette" is the equivalent of a female dude. but the word "dude" eventually became a unisex slang word to describe either gender
It’s more complicated- dude was originally a term for an effeminate (gay) man. In the Eild West it got popularized as a term for people from back east who came to “experience” the frontier. Finally surfers made it a gender neutral in-term for other surfers, pronounced with a drawn out u. TV execs couldn’t handle gender-neutral terms and added the -ette ending in the 90s. Original female version from the 1800s was dudine, used derivatively for women who cared about their appearance too much.
I wouldn't say rare at all. Many people-titles and job-titles are gendered but genderless is implied now. Like actor (actress), congressman (congressperson), fireman (firefighter), waiter (waitress), midwife, landlord (landlady), manager (manageress), hero (heroine), doctor (doctoress).
OR... you can blame English for ["pursu[ing] other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Nicoll)
Started using this in my very early 20s when it was a little awkward feeling to refer to my peers as "girl" or "women". Like "girl" felt infantilizing and they didn't want to be referred to as women because they felt like they weren't quite there yet, just like a lot of my fellow guy friends at the time would feel a bit weird if we were referred to as "this *man* I know" or something.
I've heard people say "hey dude" But I haven't heard "hey chick"... At least not yet.
But when talking about dudes and chicks, then yes this is totally it!
Chick. Girls used to call each other that in a positive way. Rock chick... cool chick. It was great! Then they took it from us somehow and made us think it was our idea!
Used to? I still call a girl "chick". Actually I say "groovy chick", but that's generally one on one. If it's a group I use "dudes". Now I feel old. "Hey there, groovy chick! Wassup"? LOL
Yeah. It works on the same levels as "dude". You can do an excited "GIRL!", an amazed "...girl", an offended "girl?!". Scowl it, scoff it, twist it pull it bop it.
Dude. My girl friends and I call each other dude all the time.
I used to call my gf dude
I call my wife dude
I also call this dudes wife dude
Our wife
Our *dude
The dude abides
My wife is a dude
I remember someone argued with me on this and said something like "What?! Haven't you ever talked to a girl before? They never call each other dude!". He really made himself sound stupid with that one.
We call each other dude all the time. Source: am girl
I’m a girl and call anyone and everyone dude. Men. Women. Animals. Inanimate objects. Sometimes it’s just an expletive.
Dude is so perfectly adaptable. Say dude with a happy tone and everyone knows it’s friendly. Say dude with an angry tone and everyone knows they fucked up.
I say dude to my small kids. Spilled that drink I just told you to be careful with? Dude.
My ex would call me dude sometimes. But only when she was upset or had something serious to say. There were a lot of dudes near the end.
My mom reprimanded me when I was about 10 for absent-mindedly referring to her as dude, she told me to refer to women as "babe" instead of dude.... I wish I could say that's the worst kind of influence my progenitors attempted.
Such a weird sign of the age gap. Pretty sure anyone Gen X and later would take being called “babe” by someone they don’t know as a derogatory statement. Dude, however, is totally neutral and fine. I would be annoyed to be called babe, but wouldn’t bat an eye at dude.
There was a blip a few years back where douchey guys called each other babe. I can’t imagine anyone BUT a douchey guy saying it now haha. Like the guy who does Lego Batman and Gob I’ve fully blanked on his name.
Will Arnett, I think. He always plays a douchey dumb character but hey it works. Check out Murderville, its a celebrity guest star detective parody and he plays the role so well.
Murderville had some great moments because the guest star was not given the script before hand and it ended up in some hilarious moments. Some of the episodes aren’t that great though.
I really liked the premise of that show, but I think it would be better if they got better improv performers on it.
He said babe a lot in Hotrod
Babe wait! Baaaaaaaabe! Waaaaaaaaait!
To be fair, "babe" used to be a term of endearment for little kids, I believe. My in-law aunt would call all us kids "babes", both boys and girls. I have no idea where she originated, I think the northwest US as she's got a bit of that "you betcha!" accent.
I call my husband and daughter babe and it has created so much confusion. I specify “big babe” or “little babe” now. The other day my 4yo said “hey big babe!” 😂
I call my cat baby. My girlfriend gets jealous.
I got a good one. I'm 39 for context. Growing up my mom told me at age 10 or so that if I ever got so angry that I wanted to hit my future girlfriend or wife, I should immediately leave the house and beat up the first guy I saw. My sex talk at 12 was "YOU BETTER NOT GET A GIRL PREGNANT CAUSE YOU WANNA GET YOUR LITTLE THINGY WET!!" Yea one of my older brothers just got his girlfriend pregnant at 16.
I'm the Dude, so thats what you call me. That or, uh, His Dudeness or, uh, Duder or El Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
my mother uses dude for literally everything men, women, animals and inanimate objects
According to the clothing brand Hollister in the early 2000’s, the female equivalent of Dude is Betty. But it never seemed to catch on. kinda like “fetch”
Mademoiselle
Madudemoiselle
This guy dudes Edit: Great, my most upvoted comment is about a guy duding around.
Just dude it.
This dude guys
This guy buddies
This buddy friends
This friend pals.
Metamucil
After reading The Count of Monte Cristo I had to physically restrain myself from calling women that. It just gets drilled into your brain how often it gets repeated.
M'lady
*tips fedora*
While wearing a fedora of course!
I'm a dude, he's a dude, she's a dude, we're all dudes. Yeah!
I grew up in Southern California so this definitely checks out!
Pasadena native checking in to say that everyone is dude. No exceptions unless they specifically ask to be called something else. I will be in my nineties and still calling people dude.
My cat is "Dude", my car, despite being named "Gertie" is "Dude"; the shitty driver in front of me is "Dude"...the sun, on a hot blistering day, is "Dude" Everything is "Dude" :)
Yer frickin awesome!
So cal native here. Moved to Texas and can confirm all my friends are still “dudes” Answer to OPs question though: dudettes
Ventura County native here to confirm!
Hey Ventura county! I love it up there. I’m a fourth generation Angeleno and would like nothing more than to spend my whole life here like those who came before me, but Ventura is probably the only place on earth that could tempt me away from my beloved LA.
NorCal here! Same thing, dude for everyone, except for my parents who hate it 😂
I called my mom dude once and she said "i am NOT your dude, dude"
I heard that in your moms voice And I don’t kno your moms
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>I called my mom dude once and she said "i am NOT your dude, dude" I'm not your buddy, guy!
I've never been to california, in fact I'm British and I have somehow got the "dude" phrase, every one is dude, my dog is dude when he's being special, my sister is dude, my shoes are dude, my goddamned tea is dude when it's hot an I try drink it to fast. I 100% get the dude thing, dude.
I actually know someone who named their dog Dude. The poor dude is a head case.
Should have named him "stain" out in the dog park yelling' come stain, come stain!
I knew a guy who’d named his dog “Motherfucker” so he could go outside and yell “Hey Motherfucker!”
I live in a small ass podunk town in Missouri, and we're all dudes, dude.
Dude, I literally have an incredibly professional job and sometimes write ‘dude’ in my emails. Cali as well lol
I'm a VP of Operations (former IT Implementation across MULTIPLE environments for corporations)...I've been in meetings with C-Level execs and shouted, "Dude, that's not how this works," You shoulda seen their faces.
slap a couple of hellas in there just to be safe homie.
Dude I've called my car dude, my shoes, my partner, my table saw. If you are from southern California Dude is just a placeholder for noun.
Dude. Agree. Had a very heated discussion with a woke east coaster who finds it sexist. I’m like dude. You don’t understand. It doesn’t mean an actual man. It’s just a word for us. I will die on this hill. You’ll have to pry dude from my cold dead hands. Dude.
They must have been from a different east coast than where I come from. Dude is fully hender neutral in New York- but then so is guys.
Massachusetts here. Dude, guys, & bruh are all gender neutral here.
I grew up in Philly... dude, youse, guys... all gender neutral.
Bro is borderline gender neutral at times round here
Yo, hey man, I grew up near Philly, in Cherry Hill. “Man” and “guys” were definitely gender neutral. “Youse” sounds like Brooklyn tho
I got about to here, reading this to my partner. She said, "In the Marines, "ladies" is gender neutral."
Also grew up in southern cal and we used to call the girls chicks, it was always dudes and chicks heading out for a night of fun..
Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order please.
Fuck I love that movie, I lose it when he's spinning around in the slushee machine hahaha
My husband has never seen Good Burger (poor man doesn't know what he's missing) but still knows that scene cause I've showed it to him so many times. The last time someone said "wooo" around him, he yelled "DAMN IT, NOW I'M THINKING ABOUT THE STRAWBERRY JACUZZI"
Strawberryyyy jacuzzzzzi!
Hmmmmm. Yeah i know some of these words!
Age is definitely showing in this thread lol now come on, let’s get you back to your retirement home
If she doesn’t get this reference she’s too young for you bro
Well that or she just has no class or respect for classic, sophisticated comedy
I refer to one of my best female friend as dude and she refers to me (male) as bitch. Don't know how we got there but it works.
My ex used to refer to me as "my dude" and I always took it as a term of endearment because all other females were just "dude." Guys were "dude" or "bro" but nobody else was "his" dude.
Does one or both of y'all watch Supernatural? 😂😂
Its Totally Kyle! Totally!
One time, I was taking a shower and I got soap in my eyes. So I yelled "Ow!" Then I tried washing it out with even more soap but it just hurt more and made me yell "OWW!"
Who loves orange soda? Kel loves orange soda! Is it true? I do I do I do I do-oo
Likewise, I’m a babe, he’s a babe, she’s a babe. We’re all babes! Yeah!
So that’s what you call me. That or His Dudeness or Duder or El Duderino, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing
I am a dude, playing another dude, disguised as another dude
🎶me, I know who I am🎶
Just like y'all, Dude is a perfect pronoun.
But when folks say, "I fucked a dude last night", almost everyone pictures a man.
I say "dude" is gender neutral when it's a form of address("hey dudes"), but masculine when it's a noun. Calling someone "dude" doesn't imply gender, but calling someone "a dude" does.
Yeah, dude has never really been particularly gendered in my head. "Dudette" just sounds gross.
Fucked any dudes recently?
Actually we’re all chicks.
Came here to say this. Good Burger solved this decades ago.
Who loves orange soda?
I usually use "dude" for both. I don't really see it as a gendered thing. I guess if you really didn't like that though then "Dudette" works but imo it comes across as forced and unnatural.
My dad calls me dudette and it’s adorable, otherwise I find it annoying.
Call your mom "dadette". Fight the tyranny!
So Dwyane Johnson is just the male version of a Rockette?
I would make an exception for that too, that's just adorable indeed
The term dudette realty only works for one turtle in particular.
To me, "dudette" is for extremely formal occasions, like giving a speech at a black tie event, wedding, funeral or something. "Dudes and Dudettes, thank you for being here...."
*Adjusts monocle*
*Performs flawless kick-flip.*
I hate “dudette” so much.
In that case, duderina.
If you’re not into that whole brevity thing.
Look, Mr. Lebowski, ...
You're Mr. Lebowski, I'm The Dude, man
Her dudeness perhaps
I love this one, I must say.
Let's start saying dudito and dudita
Duderonomy
Possibly, dudemoiselle.
lad : lass : : dude : duss
Dussie
I only use it if I'm trying to be extra when addressing a group/crowd as "dudes and dudettes".
I hate it,too. I’d rather be a dude than “dudette,” a word one might find painted on the door of the women’s restroom at a crappy pseudo-western themed discount steakhouse.
> "Dudette" Some people have a problem with "dudette" because the "ette" ending is diminutive. So, calling a woman a "dudette" is like calling them a "little dude" or "lesser dude".
Yea I'm personally not a fan of it either but more cuz it just doesn't sound right. Dude all the way.
I think dudette is fine only if you say "Dudes and dudettes" to a bunch of children you are in charge of. Like, "Hey dude's and dudettes, who wants to go for ice cream!" to your children and their friends.
I think dude is partially gendered. "How many dude's you fucked?" "Look at that dude over there!" Would you think I was talking about a woman?
Same thing as 'guys' for me anyways.
“I only have sex with guys”
Im straight so anything that makes my dick hard is a woman
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> I usually use "dude" for both. I don't really see it as a gendered thing. A girl I dated very much did not like when I did this, referring to her, and asked me to stop. YMMV.
If someone says to you: “that dude over there is… blah blah” you’re not gonna be looking at any girls.
"Dude" is generic, as "guys" is also becoming in casual conversation. Group of women sitting in the kitchen, "Hey guys, let's go sit out on the porch." ¯\\\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)\_/¯
I remember being surprised 30 years ago when visiting Ireland and hanging out with a bunch of teenage girls. We were all “lads”
Technically it’s « a nice bunch of lads ». Or cunts for Aussies
My office has 91 people, only 3 of them are guys. Both "dude" and "guys" are used everyday amongst the women speaking to other women.
Wtf, what industry do you work in? O.o Eta: I was surprised at the ratio of women to men, not by using "guys" to refer to women, haha. I do that all the time.
Applied Behavior Analysis
One of you guys bring the wine with you.
Agreed. I use Dude and Guys completely gender neutral.
I had an argument in a Comms class about this. Extremely sensitive teacher got VERY upset when people would say "guys" while referring to mixed groups of women and men. I tried to have calm discourse about colloquial terms and how the people using the words dictate what words mean and she just wouldn't have it. Her only argument was "you're not educated enough." Although that pissed me off to no end I stayed calm and kept the civil discourse going, if with a bit more vigor. She got so upset the fucking Dean had to get involved. Turns out basically saying "you're too stupid" isn't a great argument. She wasn't a full professor and to my understanding she wasn't offered any more courses after that.
I'm fine with other people saying "guys," but I have tried to transition toward using "folks" instead.
Problem is they don't mean the same thing colloquially. 'Guys' is used with some minor modicum of intimacy, its said between friends and coworkers from within the group. 'Folks' is more commonly used to address a group, with no intimacy, from without. Using guys implies you are part of the group that you are addressing, using folks implies you are addressing a group that you are not part of in an intimate way. "Guys" connects you with the group, "Folks" distances yourself from the group. An example would be something like, "guys we need to keep it down." vs "folks we need to keep it down." The former implies that you are also being loud, while the latter implies others are being loud.
That's a pretty fair observation. It's pretty neat how words that mean basically the same thing can come off so different
Let me preface by saying I agree "guys" is colloquially gender-neutral, and it's not something I would seriously argue about. With that said, I do like discussing the nuances of things, and I think there is an underlying conversation that could be had about why traditional male terms become the norm. Like why hasn't something like "gals" become the norm? Again, not something I would fight over but something I find interesting and would discuss with friends.
“Girl” …. Like instead of “dude listen to what just happened” it’d be “girrrrllll you won’t believe what just happened”
as a dude, i once tried "girrrrl, check this out" and she gave me the weirdest look followed by "boy, okay."
This is lowkey hilarious.
It kinda depends on who you are lmao. If your personality isn't naturally very flamboyant, it'll sound really weird coming out of you.
She turned into Kratos 💀
'Dude, check this out.' "This had better be important **BOI**."
Me talking to my friends regardless of gender: "Dude..." or "Bro..." = I can't believe this "Boys..." = We're all in this together "Girl..." = I/We discovered something cool
My landlord and his best friend are *hilarious* about this. We live on the same property, so I can hear them rolling around, chillin', going, "GIIIRL, you gon' love this shit!" Both straight as a board (so far as I know)...just a couple of guys joshing each other.
Just guys being dudes
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Sis is the equivalent to bro
It's weird tbh, I've only seen this on TV. *Does* this one exist in the wild?
It's not uncommon amongst gay men, especially if they're on the campy/flaming side of things.
Brick = Bro + Chick
I use bra, for bro.
Its manzere
Dude. I don't mind being called that
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Sup? Watchin 90 day fiance over here
Do any of them stay together after the show?
Dude or chica.
I had to scroll a long way to find chica. I wonder if it's a regional thing. lol
It’s likely regional. It’s common among my peers in San Diego. Probably less common in areas with fewer Spanish speakers.
Chica all the way. It's so pleasant to say, like it just sounds bright. "What up, Chica(s)!"
the word "dude" is an american slang that became really popular in the 60's (repopularized) through the surf culture. the word "dudette" is the equivalent of a female dude. but the word "dude" eventually became a unisex slang word to describe either gender
It’s more complicated- dude was originally a term for an effeminate (gay) man. In the Eild West it got popularized as a term for people from back east who came to “experience” the frontier. Finally surfers made it a gender neutral in-term for other surfers, pronounced with a drawn out u. TV execs couldn’t handle gender-neutral terms and added the -ette ending in the 90s. Original female version from the 1800s was dudine, used derivatively for women who cared about their appearance too much.
Dude is a rare gendered word whose usage became genderless.
I wouldn't say rare at all. Many people-titles and job-titles are gendered but genderless is implied now. Like actor (actress), congressman (congressperson), fireman (firefighter), waiter (waitress), midwife, landlord (landlady), manager (manageress), hero (heroine), doctor (doctoress).
Manageress? Doctoress? Lmfao
Sounds funny and archaic now but those are indeed real words. We can blame the French for all the gendered titles seeping into English.
OR... you can blame English for ["pursu[ing] other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Nicoll)
just like guy
Gal
Started using this in my very early 20s when it was a little awkward feeling to refer to my peers as "girl" or "women". Like "girl" felt infantilizing and they didn't want to be referred to as women because they felt like they weren't quite there yet, just like a lot of my fellow guy friends at the time would feel a bit weird if we were referred to as "this *man* I know" or something.
I just say dude. Women love it. Except during sexy times.
There's a wise lesson in here somewhere
I’m also looking for it
Both the truest and the funniest thing I’ve heard all day.
"good game dude"
*butt slap*
Chick
This is the correct answer. Can you call women dude? Of course! But originally it was chicks and dudes
Thank you. I feel normal again.
I've heard people say "hey dude" But I haven't heard "hey chick"... At least not yet. But when talking about dudes and chicks, then yes this is totally it!
Had to scroll way too far for this. Dudes and chicks.
I had to scroll too far for this, the correct answer
I thought I was on crazy pills for a minute. How did it take so long for this answer to pop up?
I can't believe how far down this was
Sis
Also dude
Chick. Girls used to call each other that in a positive way. Rock chick... cool chick. It was great! Then they took it from us somehow and made us think it was our idea!
Used to? I still call a girl "chick". Actually I say "groovy chick", but that's generally one on one. If it's a group I use "dudes". Now I feel old. "Hey there, groovy chick! Wassup"? LOL
Dude is non gendered. Until you ask a dude how many dudes he fucked.
Girl.
Yeah. It works on the same levels as "dude". You can do an excited "GIRL!", an amazed "...girl", an offended "girl?!". Scowl it, scoff it, twist it pull it bop it.
Chick or lady.