Around five years ago, it struck me that
the term ‘guys’ had become commonplace in referring to both men and women. The moment it hit me, I thought, “women aren’t guys! How has it come to be that girls and women are constantly called ‘guys’?” From that moment on, I began to feel uncomfortable when mixed gender groups were all referred to as ‘guys.’ Furthermore, I began to notice that women were calling each other ‘guys’ as well. Suddenly, things seemed sort of crazy. We’re not calling mixed groups of men and women ‘gals’ and men don’t call each other ‘gals’, so why has the planet become populated with ‘you guys’?
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