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[–] giuseppe@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Anything goes in Michigan.

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The last two aren't really used here.

[–] giuseppe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Guess I'm not your pal, fella.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Where is sexy-(square)pants? Man-in-tights? Curly-cock? Dick-broom?

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You have some strange buddies.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I never call them buddies, idk, that just sounds wrong.

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mid Atlantic region just doesn’t like anyone.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

We do not. So that is accurate!

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Speaking of brotymology, what's a gender neutral version of bro/man?

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

I use "fam".

[–] sga@lemmings.world 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

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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[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Georgians have no friends.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Damn, no representation for "babe", "bbgrl", etc? I use those a lot.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

What up, fucko?

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The only thing this proves is that us here in the PNW truly do have less friends than the rest of our country men.

[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

but it's made up for with the greater PNW polycule

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[–] millie@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

Massachusetts has much more dude than this.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Michigan is all about it.

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My area has some color in every one of these, lol.

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My buddy in Atlanta would like a word.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Which word?

"Stud?"

"My man?"

"Cuz?"

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