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the pilot doesn't deserve being gendered? the child, okay I can see having their info private. but "3 women, and child, and the pilot" just seems a lil weird y'know
they're named as Andres so they're probably male identifying (edit- the article also uses "he", so even likelier that they're male identifying) but still, the women are ID'd by their gender, but the child and pilot by their "role" or age or something. I hope it was a consent thing, the pilot didn't want to be listed by their gender, but the women were okay with it?
anyway, they couldn't drink the water they were floating in because of leaking plane fuel contaminating it, but they had some flour to eat so they were in somewhat healthy conditions. quoted as "amazing conditions", but I think that's relative to having been deemed missing for those 48hrs
they were extremely fortunate, but still that's gotta be a mind fuck to be surrounded by human-eating reptiles just lurking in the water outside the contaminated area. don't fall in! life saving water within arms reach but you can't get it safely. I'm glad they were airlifted to hospital, they probably needed a rehydration/water IV inserted
Sexism is everywhere once you start looking for it.
ohh I see the male defaultism everywhere. I am a woman and work in a warehouse, it comes up often when all the folks (another woman in the warehouse with me) are referred to as "guys". sure, most of the folks are men but still, it's kinda disrespectful imo. but I saw a super clear example the other day watching a Cody Ko youtube video where Cody was commentating on, like, cringe podcasters or something. but there was a man who was addressing a 4 or 5 person group of only, all women. the male podcaster felt uncomfortable saying "hey women" or something and then chose "hey guys" instead. like, how more egregious can you get? they're ALL women, and yet you think it's a-ok to refer to them as "guys". how hard is it to go to "hey gals" or "hey ladies" 🙄 as an aside, I hate when people say "men and females" like we're a separate fucking species. I see that shit everywhere on less leftist communities, like reddit. haven't seen it too much yet on lemmy but it'll happen eventually as the site gains more users
Non-native speaker here, but which terms could one use to address mixed groups?
I would use "Everybody", "Folks", "All" or simply "Hey there".
They're being overly sensitive, in most contexts guys is considered a gender neutral term these days. English is just dealing with the slow loss of gender from the language and it's reached the point where there are so few instances of gendered words left that the ones that are stick out and feel a little awkward. Or like in the case of the parent post where people fixate on the linguistic fossils left in the language and decide to take offense by intentionally interpreting phrases in anachronistic ways rather than modern usage.
comrades, workers and peasants of the glorious union /s