Look them dead in the eye and call them yinz. They will be terrified.

Legitimate question - how does one refer to a group of young women you’re familiar with? I’m a grad student and I encounter this all the time. Saying “a woman at school” sounds like I’m referring to someone who is much older than me. “Lady” sounds weird. I hate saying “girl.” I wait tables and was scolded by…

I use gals, kind of sarcastically/nerdily, typically partnered with guys. To me, from me, it’s just a nerdy word. But I can see how from the wrong person it would be obnoxious.

I think that would bother me more if she was one of the celebrities that only discovered feminism for IWD, but she’s spent the last few years vocally campaigning for women so I just see the “performance” as an extension of that. The performance is a bit dorky but I like dorks.

There isn’t anything wrong with Emma Watson’s tweet. Not sure why everyone is hating on someone that’s actively trying but OKAY.

This is one aspect of Jezebel that makes me cringe a little. I understand the importance of bringing attention to those who are just being awful, but for the people who are at least trying? Not ok. It comes off a little “liberal mean girl.”

Is there going to be a round-up summarizing all the dumb articles published on Jezebel today?

“Guys” is my generic word for a group of people, regardless of age or gender. And sometimes “dudes” if the people I’m addressing are close friends. I don’t care how formal the setting is because, well, I live a very informal life.

Dude, that woman has cool glasses, a sassy haircut, and a nice suit jacket. I’ll bet she’s somewhere right now living her best life and not giving a single fuck.

Not sure how universal this is, but myself, I use “guys” as a unisex term, in very casual settings. “Hey you guys,” might be addressed to any grouping.

I think they meant more, why is she on this list? I didn’t see anything in her tweet that made it worthy of the worst tweets of the day.

for a start, it’s tremendously condescending... = |

I do too! For me it’s because my dad, who is a raging and proud misogynist, calls all women gals. 87 year old woman? Gal. 16 year old child in short shorts he’s ogling? Pretty ‘lil gal. Accomplished grown ass women? Mouthy gal.

“Gals”

That was seriously messed up. Really, really, REALLY bad choice, Twitter.

I’d worry more about dogs honestly, one attacked me a few weeks back while I was delivering. Somehow squeezed through a fence and latched onto my back lol it sucked and man I’m surprised your husband is out that late at our stations we have to be back by 5 or 5:30 the latest regardless of how much volume, they make us…

This!

That’s fine :) I know there’s likely an amount of people who work at USPS that don’t do their jobs correctly, probably on par with the population in general. I just get hype about it because 1. I fucking love my husband and 2. he’s badass at his job and it’s actually a really difficult job, especially his route/where…

You used a specific reference to discuss a general problem among carriers. You stated, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” my ass.’ Not to mention you were responding to a comment about how, in general, mail carriers have it rough. You used a specific reference to dispute what another commenter said in…

My husband is a mail carrier. He works no matter what. He worked for 11 hours on the day of a snow storm recently. Didn’t take a lunch break, didn’t get home until almost 7:00 at night because he was trudging through snow drifts.