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[roseba]

Originally Posted by DreamerD

I will no longer call you dude. I hear women refer to each other as dude and so maybe this is a Millennial/Zoomer thing. Tell your genitalia that i apologize.

At the same time, I am surprised you refer to yourself as girl instead of woman, which I have heard many women challenge. Thank you for this lesson today. I realize that women are not all the same and I will keep this in mind.

Yeah, inflection doesn't come through. I'm pretty sure I'm quoting something from a movie when I say "I'm all girl." It doesn't imply I am prepubescent. But as a woman who works in IT, it's been a particularly offensive thing, along with the men talking over you, dismissing your ideas only to rephrase the idea that you just stated 5 minutes ago as their own. IT is still a boy's club. (ah there is the context of all gal. It's akin to boy's club.)

[Aeran]

Originally Posted by roseba

Yeah, inflection doesn't come through. I'm pretty sure I'm quoting something from a movie when I say "I'm all girl." It doesn't imply I am prepubescent. But as a woman who works in IT, it's been a particularly offensive thing, along with the men talking over you, dismissing your ideas only to rephrase the idea that you just stated 5 minutes ago as their own. IT is still a boy's club. (ah there is the context of all gal. It's akin to boy's club.)

Ok, that makes sense. Dude is a universal term. I say it to guys and gals. It's akin to saying, "you guys" towards a mixed group. It's not gender specific but I hear what you're saying. Reminds me of a colleague who didn't like people calling her "kiddo". It made her bristle because she was the youngest person in a team where others were 15-20 years older than her and she felt it was somewhat a diss when maybe it wasn't. And yeah, she worked in a male dominant profession (IT and private wealth portfolio mgmt).

[Airborneguy]

We have to stop with all this off topic nonsense lately. What's the common denominator? Hmm...