Human Being with Carrier Organs

Exactly, chick=girl, dude=boy. Both are gnarly words.

 

I read this essay once by (i think) cynthia hiymel (sp?)
Anyway, it was about the use of 'guys' as referring to a group of women.
She said it was basically because there is not eqiuvalent term for women - like you come into a room and say "hey guys" which is nice and casual, etc.... There is no female term which mtaches -
you can have "hey women" which sounds kinda wanky;

"hey ladies" - well, lady has gross connotations. Ladies are so...owned. (as the writer put) it is a term that at once puts women on a pedastool and patronises them;

"Hey girls", which is even worse, ugh. If anyone over about 15 is referred to as a girl it just sounds daft...you know, let us girls go shopping with our men's credit cards, aren't we naughty.

And then we come to chicks - It may be better than the others, but i still don't think it has the casual, equalising effect of "guys".

So, to stop blabbering, one reason for using guys to refer to a group of anyone is out of sheer desperation.

 

I always use "chick(s)". Or girls. I don't see why the hell it bugs people.

 

bitch

bitch
bitch
bitch
bitch
bitch


and this is why no one takes feminism seriously anymore. just another tired ism...

 

i don't get it?