UC Davis to Students: "You Guys" Is Insensitive

[Weatherman2020]

It's what you get for $30,000 a semester.

“You guys [e]rases the identities of people who are in the room,” the guide states. It “generaliz[es] a group of people to be masculine.”

UC Davis: Saying ‘You Guys’ Is Using ‘Words That Hurt’

 

[Zoom-boing]

You guys is perfect, I use it all the time, say it to the kids frequently. Poor, sensitive types who just can't handle ... well, anything.

I'm gonna use it even more now!

 

[The Great Goose]

Depends how it's used.

 

[B. Kidd]

Those guys behind this are pussies'.

 

[Auld Phart]

inmates at the Corrections facility I worked brought suit against the COs using the term 'guys' to reference them, because it was a type rope. and therefore 'de-humanizing'.

and won

 

[Ozone]

sticks and stones, rather knives and guns, that hurts. words, especially ''you guys'', if that hurts you then you should probably commit suicide to save yourself from a lifetime of torment.