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[TD1]

#teamsnow

Book Snow, you understand. For the series I guess I'd be

#teamrobb

[Egan_BW]

Bah just let winter eat the planet all these humans are irredeemable jackasses

[scriver]

#teamrenly

[Kagus]

You know what's good about Daenerys? She hired Tyrion.

I mean, she doesn't listen to him, but she did hire him.


But yeah, she's basically just a really lucky blonde with tits and dragons. As far as GoT characters go, that's honestly pretty decent.

[scriver]

You know what's good about Daenerys? She hired Tyrion.

Too much nepotism is what got us into this mess in the first place!

[Egan_BW]

Why do youtube comments have so many users with the exact same JC Denton avatar, and why are almost all of them edgy-braindead?

[scourge728]

some trashy fortnite youtuber did a thing, so everyone started using that and spamming comment sections, and then most of them stopped the spam

[Yoink]

Is it better to refer to a band (or any group of people, really) with a single female member as "these guys" or "these guys (and gal)"?

[Kagus]

I dunno, I tend to use "guys" as a gender-neutral term, and I haven't been slapped for it yet.

[TD1]

Guys is fine. It can mean men or it can mean both. It's not like saying "hey gals!"

[Frumple]

Folks tend to be a better default, really. Lot, group, band, awesome people, etc., etc., etc. The English language is broad and there's unquestionably gender neutral stuff out there to use for mixed groups.

[Kagus]

For extra diversity, use "peeps".

They even come in LGBT colors!

[Yoink]

Both "folks" and "peeps" would seem rather out-of-character for me, I'm afraid.
I've used "guys" as gender-neutral for a long time, but it still feels weird sometimes.

[Frumple]

Probably 'cause it's not gender-neutral, just fairly normative to ignore that fact, heh.

Any case, whatever you decide to do is in-character, kinda' by default. If you use it it's in-character, 'cause you're not some kind of typecast literary creation or summat.

... if you feel like option 3, though, you could always take a mo' and sling an email or Twitter thing or whatever at the band you're planning on using it to refer to and just ask what they would prefer. It's a straightforward way to stop guessing, yeh.

[TD1]

If it's "normative to ignore that fact" it kinda means that it is.

For instance - "Mankind" is humanity, including male and female. On the surface it seems that it means men exclusively. But it's "normative to ignore that fact," and so it's gender neutral.

Whether it's sexist as hell is for people who actually care to wrangle over.