You can call me Al.
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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Anything goes in Michigan.
The last two aren't really used here.
Guess I'm not your pal, fella.
Georgians have no friends.
Mid Atlantic region just doesn’t like anyone.
We do not. So that is accurate!
Speaking of brotymology, what's a gender neutral version of bro/man?
I use "fam".
they are kinda a gender neutral.
Bro is fairly commonly used as gender neutral word.
Man (as in my man) does not have an equivalent (my person does not havve the ring) - but originally, man was the gender neutral term for persons, and we user mer (as in mermaid) / were (as in werewolf) for males. that is how man was used. But that very well could also be due to bias in writing and archiving of stuff, I don not know much about this.
I'm old, but my even older inlaws refer to each other affectionately as "person."
People say "dude" is neutral, but you don't often see it used when all the dudes are women, and the existence of "dudette" also implies it's not.
"Friend" maybe but could sound sarcastic.
Come to think of it, all these terms are ripe for sarcastic use. In fact, I'd like to see the map of antibrotymology. Which of the above is used the way Wolverine uses "Bub"?
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Damn, no representation for "babe", "bbgrl", etc? I use those a lot.
There's quite a few terms missing, bitch, homie & n - - - a are the ones that come to mind right away. I'd like to see the demographic distribution of the participants.
What up, fucko?
The only thing this proves is that us here in the PNW truly do have less friends than the rest of our country men.
but it's made up for with the greater PNW polycule
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Massachusetts has much more dude than this.
Chief…
The top three are used in California.
I mainly stick with Dude and Buddy (Buddy being my go to for strangers "Thanks Buddy")
In my office a few years back I started ironically calling people "Homie" and that overtime morphed into a gender neutral term of endearment we all used for each other.
I really wonder where "Homie" fits into this
Michigan is all about it.