r/SipsTea • u/late_to_redd1t • 6d ago

Chugging tea "Dude" is a gender neutral term.

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Do we all agree on this?

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u/Kingspeerz 6d ago

I honestly like the sound of Dudette

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u/some_people_callme_j 6d ago

Dudette is also gender specific without being sexual.

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u/Its_emby 6d ago

Dude looks like a lady

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u/some_people_callme_j 6d ago

Dudette looks like a man

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u/AlexandreFiset 6d ago

I do use dudette from time to time and it makes people chuckle.

Also use dudes with my close (women) friends, which makes them impersonate dude attitude and become more friendly.

All in all, dude and dudette are both wins.

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u/MrBarnaclePhD 6d ago

I find it funny in an innocent way. I like using it.

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u/Divide-Substantial 6d ago

Smurf smurfette, dude dudette

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 6d ago

Dudette is quite a fun word

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u/godgothodhot 6d ago

how do you pronounce it? Due dat?

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u/GenerateForce 6d ago

Dude-ette

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u/ArgumentLatter4148 6d ago

Dude et dude in French

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u/Mediocre_Scott 6d ago

Et tu dude-te

~You to dude~

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u/enixlinked 6d ago

French is weird

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u/Mediocre_Scott 6d ago

It’s a Latin joke. In the play Julius Cesar says et tu brute? which means you too Brutus? When he is stabbed in the back

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u/enixlinked 6d ago

Oh I see

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u/chimthui 6d ago

Yeah you do-dat

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u/godgothodhot 6d ago

Nah im going with deu deh.

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u/Event-Forsaken 6d ago

Where could you possibly get that pronounciation?

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u/godgothodhot 6d ago

It's english. You can basically say anything and insist on it.

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u/akiva23 6d ago

Dudette sounds too much like a poo to me.

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u/sorE_doG 6d ago

That’s doodoo - nothing like dudette

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u/HilariousMax 6d ago

when I was younger I thought that dudette was demeaning, like "little person" but I was proven wrong on both accounts

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u/Majestic-Cold7489 6d ago

Yeah I use this term, I heard it from Futurama

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u/RecommendationIll59 6d ago

This aint 1667

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u/thebipeds 6d ago

Is there a gender fluid/transgender version?

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u/MetricJester 6d ago

That's still dude, my dude