@XanderHenderson :P but there's another "no longer needed". Mind you, I've tolerated being referenced as a "he", and now a "dude". But flagging is the best option. Thanks, btw.
@Xander Did you forget "winks"? Perhaps they were handled by another?
To most folk from costal SoCal, "dude" is super gender neutral (though the others are not). It is hard for us to move out to the rest of the country and have to deal with the fact that not everyone knows that "dude" isn't supposed to be gendered. :D
@amWhy Dude! Don't do that! He doesn't deserve it!
(though you are more than welcome to burn your bra, if that is your desire).
@amWhy Again, "guy" is a term that has been gender-neutral everywhere I can remember living. I know that, historically, it hasn't always been seen that way, and that a lot of people regard it as gendered, but it is hard for me to wrap my head around that.
I think it is somewhat generational.
People younger than myself seem to have no problem with a gender-neutral "guy", while people older than myself seem to regard it a masculine. I feel cuspy.
@XanderHenderson I'm "cuspy", as well. But at the same time, knowing it's origins, arguing that words like "he", "guy", "dude" are supposed to apply to all others, and therefore, shame on all of those who object, is an old old old tactic to dismiss objections due to the fact than none of them are gender neutral.
@amWhy I think that there needs to be a conversation which goes both ways. When someone says "hey, don't call me dude", you should respect that.
On the other hand, when someone says, "hey, I grew up on a culture where dude is non-gendered, and I have a hard time not using it in my daily vocabulary", one should show a little grace to that person. Intent matters.
I remember quite well, the difficulty in picking up "singular they". It grated against my grammarian instincts, but have since, embraced it as a means to talk about one person, generically, or refer to a person, say online, when one's name isn't decisive, or else clarified elsewhere their preference.
@XanderHenderson And at age 14, I undertook the rewriting of the Bill of Rights to make in non-gendered. Took quite some time, apart from other assigned coursework!
close I vote for closing this duplicate There are solutions based on the duality of $L_p$'s spaces already.
deleteduplicate 1, duplicated 2. These problems are all variations of translations and dilations in geometric series and had been posted in MSE many times before.
