Brooklynese in N.O.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Bethany, I've read an *impassioned* _cri de coeur_ by Douglas Hofstatder (in his _Le Ton Beau de Marot_ ) denouncing the use of "guy(s)," by anyone, to refer to females, ever,  as patriarchal sexist ideology at its unrestrained worst.

Loony, but impassioned.

JL



"Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU> wrote:
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Mark A. Mandel wrote:

>Interesting. Conversely, I use "gal" as a counterpart to "guy": colloquial =
>'woman' with no judgment attached. (But this is idiolect, not dialect: a
>deliberate choice to fill a lexical gap.)

To me, we're all guys.

Bethany


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