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ain't your buddy, pal! (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Anything goes in Michigan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The last two aren't really used here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Guess I'm not your pal, fella.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mid Atlantic region just doesn’t like anyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

We do not. So that is accurate!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Speaking of brotymology, what's a gender neutral version of bro/man?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

they are kinda a gender neutral.

Bro is fairly commonly used as gender neutral word.

Man (as in my man) does not have an equivalent (my person does not havve the ring) - but originally, man was the gender neutral term for persons, and we user mer (as in mermaid) / were (as in werewolf) for males. that is how man was used. But that very well could also be due to bias in writing and archiving of stuff, I don not know much about this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I use "fam".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm old, but my even older inlaws refer to each other affectionately as "person."

People say "dude" is neutral, but you don't often see it used when all the dudes are women, and the existence of "dudette" also implies it's not.

"Friend" maybe but could sound sarcastic.

Come to think of it, all these terms are ripe for sarcastic use. In fact, I'd like to see the map of antibrotymology. Which of the above is used the way Wolverine uses "Bub"?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Georgians have no friends.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, no representation for "babe", "bbgrl", etc? I use those a lot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

There's quite a few terms missing, bitch, homie & n - - - a are the ones that come to mind right away. I'd like to see the demographic distribution of the participants.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

What up, fucko?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The only thing this proves is that us here in the PNW truly do have less friends than the rest of our country men.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

but it's made up for with the greater PNW polycule

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The top three are used in California.

I mainly stick with Dude and Buddy (Buddy being my go to for strangers "Thanks Buddy")

In my office a few years back I started ironically calling people "Homie" and that overtime morphed into a gender neutral term of endearment we all used for each other.

I really wonder where "Homie" fits into this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

My buddy in Atlanta would like a word.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Which word?

"Stud?"

"My man?"

"Cuz?"

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Chief…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My area has some color in every one of these, lol.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Massachusetts has much more dude than this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm super curious about that hole in Texas for "dude."

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