> On Sep 27, 2019, at 10:27 PM, Konstantin Tokarev <[email protected]> wrote: > > 27.09.2019, 08:15, "Simon Fraser" <[email protected]>: >>> On Sep 27, 2019, at 3:27 AM, Aakash Jain <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> I have been making number of improvements to EWS. I also have various >>> planned improvements to EWS. I wanted to reach out to you guys to see if >>> anyone >> >> Not everyone on this list is a guy. > > FWIW, plural form of "guy" is often used as gender-neutral vocative, see e.g. > [1,2] > > [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guy > [2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/guy
I apologize to Aakash for calling this out publicly. However, ‘guys’ clearly has gender-specific roots, and to my ears, it sounds male-biased, There are many other words that can be used in its place which are more inclusive (“folks”, “everyone”, “you all” etc). Simon _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
