Asklemmy

43879 readers

1546 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

218

I'm from the Y'all zone. Is it offensive to call trans people y'all? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 21 hours ago by UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

130 comments fedilink hide all child comments

If anyone can find more pixels for me i would appreciate it.

Thanks y'all.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The literal meaning isn’t gender neutral, but in actual practice, it 100% is.

Unless you can ask a straight man how many guys he's slept with, it isn't gender neutral, no matter how resistant to this fact you are.

[–] Grenfur@lemmy.one 2 points 42 minutes ago

I don't see the issue with using the term "guys" in the plural when referring to a group regardless of sex. That would align with the definition of the word. I'm pretty sure that's how they meant it.