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Snowflake jokes are stale as fuck lmao
You're honestly right and I regret the joke and lowering the level of discourse with it. Sorry everyone.
But isten, you've been heavily down voted in this thread, and it's not because we are all sycophantic anti-woke nut jobs. This community is for the most part intelligent, leftist or left-leaning, empathetic people who support the rights of all kinds to exist and be recognized and treated fairly. But many would agree there is a reasonable degree to which you can meet people halfway when it comes to communication and understanding.
Whether you like it or not, "guys" in the agendered sense, is a part of the language. It may not always have been, but it is now. When people use it in this way, they aren't thinking about your gender or the concept of gender at all. They are trying to address a collection of people, simple as that. English doesn't have a plural second-person pronoun, we have to use additional words.
When you get offended, you are deliberately misunderstanding them, and thus engaging in a bad-faith argument against their intended meaning. And it's that audacity, the sidelining of pithy conversation for an imagined affront, that rubs some otherwise supportive and open minded people like myself the wrong way.
If your general assumption is “people who get offended are just deliberately misunderstanding me” then I don’t know how this conversation can be productive. That’s not sociopathic but it sure is a selfish outlook as well as one that explains your tasteless snowflake joke.
Yeah, well, this has been fun! Let's do it again some time.
”sorry for the tasteless joke and devolving the conversation, here’s a sarcastic exit instead.”
You’re something else dude. Feel free to have the last word, I’m sure it’s very important to you.