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Growing up in southern California among surfer culture, "dude" was and is an integral part of my vocabulary. And I considered it a gender-neutral term … until I saw the sentence "How many dudes have you slept with?" and I realized that part of me still considers "dude" as masc-gendered.
May 8, 2025, 5:14 AM
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