In my area ādudeā is really gender neutral in most cases.
Regional dialects and all that.
Funnily enough so is āmanā in a lot of cases.
For example: āMan I donāt know whatās going on anymore.ā In this case āmanā is less a reference to anyone in any specific way and more like an exasperation (like fuck, shit, hell, etc) and is a really common usage.
Edit: As an example of itās gender-neutralness, āFuck man, chill itās just the wrong order.ā In this case āmanā is often used in a gender neutral way when referring to a specific person. Also man in this case can be swapped with ābroā and ādudeā.
Regional dialects can get really weird in some cases, we use the same words but the meanings can be so different.
Language is a beautiful tangled knot that depending on which side youāre looking at it from it can change so much.
āmanā used to mean person, it was gender neutral. In fact the root āmenā just meant āto thinkā, so a man could be any sapient being.
It was only changed several hundred years ago. āmankindā and other similar universals were meant to represent every human and became exclusionary only under patriarchal interpretation. āmankindā of course endures as universal, but we see lots of āfirewomanā, āmailwomanā, etc., where the language becomes fundamentally gendered.
In my area ādudeā is really gender neutral in most cases.
Regional dialects and all that.
Funnily enough so is āmanā in a lot of cases.
For example: āMan I donāt know whatās going on anymore.ā In this case āmanā is less a reference to anyone in any specific way and more like an exasperation (like fuck, shit, hell, etc) and is a really common usage.
Edit: As an example of itās gender-neutralness, āFuck man, chill itās just the wrong order.ā In this case āmanā is often used in a gender neutral way when referring to a specific person. Also man in this case can be swapped with ābroā and ādudeā.
Regional dialects can get really weird in some cases, we use the same words but the meanings can be so different.
Language is a beautiful tangled knot that depending on which side youāre looking at it from it can change so much.
āmanā used to mean person, it was gender neutral. In fact the root āmenā just meant āto thinkā, so a man could be any sapient being.
It was only changed several hundred years ago. āmankindā and other similar universals were meant to represent every human and became exclusionary only under patriarchal interpretation. āmankindā of course endures as universal, but we see lots of āfirewomanā, āmailwomanā, etc., where the language becomes fundamentally gendered.