Hey Guys! Vs Hey Team!

[SwordToFlamethrower]

In the 90s, I remember when people addressed a group of people as "hey guys and gals!" But then it got shortened to just "guys".

It really pees me off that they dropped addressing women and girls from a crowd. Why?

No one says "see that guy over there?" When it is a woman they're referring to, but a crowd of mixed sex people are defaulted to being male. In my mind, a "guy" is a male. Guy is an actual male name and saying "guys" feels sexist.

My amazing Yoga teacher addresses everyone as "Team" and I think this is really uplifting and inclusive! She will say "Ok Team, take a deep breath!" Or "Well done Team!" I feel included, confident and valued when addressed as part of a team.

The other day I went to visit a petting farm and a woman addressed a group of pregnant ewes as "guys" and I found it so utterly weird.

So I made a meme and ask, if you agree, to share it.

I'm on my mobile so can't activate the voting, apologies!

YABU - "Guys" is shorthand for women and for men

YANBU - "Team" instead of guys works better for addressing a mixed sex crowd of people

This reminds me of "The Man Who Has it All" satirical facebook page.

I once asked my team at work (my actual team) to come up with an alternative for us instead of using Guys and they came up with Theydies and Gentethems. Piss take. We went back to Guys although nowadays I use team/ gang/ everyone/ all if I need a group word.

"guys" will always be the goonies to me and my family. We were always referred to as "hey you guys!"

You are quite right to do so! 🤣

Glad I'm normally in Germany, tbh, because it's "hallo zusammen" which covers everything (hello everyone)

Edited for spelling

YABU - I use 'guys' to address both sexes, I would use it for a group of women the same as I would for a mixed or men only group.

I follow Man Who Has It All, too - ‘he’ is all over this sort of thing, @SwordToFlamethrower!

I said “hi guys” to my all female medical and nursing team this morning 😮

Guys sounds better than team. Team sounds cringey, especially in a setting such as a yoga class where you are not a team but a collection of individuals doing the same thing, for individual and not collective benefit.

For starters, I prefer "Hi" to "Hey"

I've just opened this thread and I actually laughed out loud 🤣

”Hey” reminds me of my mum who always used to say “hey is for horses”

I guess trying to teach us it was an impolite way to address people then (would have been in the 70s/80s)

Yes, I follow that a lot! It is brilliant!

"I don't mind being called a male policewoman because it's gender neutral" says Peter, male policewoman

Ah yes, I have this t-shirt that gets me an occasional puzzled look

This is exactly it. Well put!

It isn't it, exactly. It isn't it at all.
It simply shows a spectacular lack of understanding of how language works.
There absolutely is male bias in some aspects of language usage.
Using the gender neutral "Guys" isn't an example of it.
Peter Trudgill's Sociolinguistics is a good starter book if you want to learn about it.

I know perfectly well how language works. Are you always so patronizing

Refe to me as a guy after I've asked you not to and I will ignore everything. Especially if you want something from me (like payment)

You do you. I have only had a couple of issues with idiot "servers" in chain restaurants who have done it a second time. One was told to apologize - he did. But no tip. One was real located to a different table. Her replacement was excellent. Nice tip.

🥱