"You Guys". What a dumb saying.

[Tony Ramirez]

However I feel like after reading the OP’s posts, maybe the issue is not about offending people but more about how the words just don’t sit right on the tongue lols.

We got a winner here.

 

[Tony Ramirez]

frienemy

I actually like that word. Many so called "friends" are enemies which rules out that "best" and "forever" crap saying.

 

[All-Rounder]

Would you all?
Y’all
You all
Friends
My Peeps
My Ninjas ( maybe around ppl you are comfortable with.)

My ninja
Chappie would prolly like you.

 

[All-Rounder]

I actually like that word. Many so called "friends" are enemies which rules out that "best" and "forever" crap saying.

My frienemy

 

[Reirei]

My frienemy

I'm feeling 90s moments.

 

[tlc]

I know one person who says "youse guys", a retired guy from Ohio who my dad works for. I think it sounds like a horribly wrong use of plurality.

"y'all" sounds southern (not bad but out of place up here), and "you people" sounds authoritive.

I usually say "you guys" or "you folks". Unless it's a group of women and I sometimes say "you gals".

 

[Hollow Horse]

Every old sock meets an old shoe. Ain't that a great saying? But yeah, 'you guys' towards ladies / girls is just weird.

 

[Tony Ramirez]

I'm feeling 90s moments.

I did not realize that frienemy was a 90's saying. It is used much more then now though but of course shows like "Friends" is very popular with the young generation that was not even born when the show originally aired.

 

[GrownupGirl]

If you're bothered by every little thing people say on a regular basis, you're going to drive yourself insane, so it's best just to let it go in one and one ear and out the other.

Is it okay to use the saying "in one ear and out the other"? When people have told *me* that, I find the problem is that I have a rather large brain that gets in the way.

 

[Tony Ramirez]

Agree. So many things bother me "you guys" is minor I have major issues that bother me more anyway.

 

[ellabu]

In my opinion "you guys" is used as more as a gender neutral thing, well where I live anyways. I say it to a group of all girls frequently especially since I was in an all-girls school for 5 years.

But don't think too much about it I'm sure most who say it aren't trying to cause any harm.

 

[All-Rounder]

 

[Vindicator Phoenix]

I despise hearing, "you guys!"

Very androcentric!!!

If it's used to refer to a combination of men and/or boys, I don't see the problem. Otherwise, I internally pout, when I hear it.

 

[Tony Ramirez]

My church friends say "you guys" and "like" so much they got me slipping sometimes saying it. I now understand why it is said so much. I still think "you all" is so much more gender neutral.

 

[Kalinychta]

Really I never said this. I said you people. But many when hanging out with there friends will say "You guys" even when there are girls in the group. Maybe that is why I can never keep friends saying the more common sense "you people".

Haha! A female friend of mine who lives in California told me the other day that young people there call each other "bro" all the time, including women. So women are bros now, too. Ha! What the hey, though?!