dude to a girl

Guest   Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:51 pm GMT
im so mad someone called me dude today why did he call me that?
i hate him for destroying my femininess.
Skippy   Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:53 am GMT
You mean "femininity."

"Dude" has become relatively gender-neutral since (I'm assuming) about the 1980s. If I'm friends with a girl, I often use "dude," although I usually say "chica."
Kendra   Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:12 am GMT
I've never heard DUDE used w/female nouns, but I've heard GUYS

(A girl to her girlfriends): Come on, guys, let's go out ;)


I don't think dude has lost its masculinity:

''I can't stand Tori Spelling. She looks like a dude.''
Uriel   Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:31 am GMT
I consider dude pretty gender-neutral. I'll call anyone dude. Actually, when I start a sentence with it, it doesn't even necessarily refer to the person I'm talking to. As was pointed out on SNL years ago, dude is now pretty much any part of speech you want it to be....
Skippy   Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:51 pm GMT
I agree with Uriel. "Dude" can be used to get the attention of one guy or one girl or a group of twenty. "Dude! I'm bored!" "Dude! Change the channel!" I don't know if ya'll are familiar with the "dude" Bud Light commercials, but they're hilarious.

But I have heard "she looks like a dude" but the meaning of this expression is implied by context.
Uriel   Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:24 pm GMT
And to properly say and use "dude" you must make the little head motion that goes with it.