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I cringe every time I hear another guy refer to women like this

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

Same goes for race. The number of times a story starts with "this black guy..." and the story has nothing to do with race is way too high. Especially from white people who just say "this guy" if the person was white. It just shows your implicit (or explicit) bias and that you think of someone differently because of the colour of their skin and you're attempting to encode that feeling within your language.