Women calling each other "dude" and "bro" in movies and shows.

[bif]

When did that start? And does anyone else think it sounds weird?

[marble falls]

1. You young folks and all your new-fangled ways!

[Nittersing]

2. I got called "dude" about 20 yrs ago by a younger, male, coworker

Much the same way that my generation started referring to my gal pals as "guys" as in, "you guys want to go out for a couple drinks (or whatever)."

[walkingman]

3. When I hear the term "Dude" I always think of "The Big Lebowski"....could that be it?

[bif]

4. I doubt younger folks are familiar with the movie

[Brother Buzz]

11. The Stranger's monologue - "The Dude Abides"

Sometimes you eat the bear….sometimes the bear eats you.

[KLK1972]

5. My daughters do this!!

With each other and their friends, I think they qualify as Gen Z. It's actually hilarious to see/hear. Also, one of them has a Funcle shirt, although she is not an uncle nor a funcle

[Deuxcents]

6. I think some of their slang is only understood by them and they're just having fun. Like 6-7.

[Chalco]

7. I'm tired of all people referred to as men or man in books.

When I read something that goes like "...and in the history of mankind..." I shake my head and feel unrepresented.

I know my mind is supposed to translate it to "well, the author means all of us, men and women" but I find it disrespectful.

[anciano]

8. And somehow the phrase "you guys"

has become the commonly used default when referring to a mixed gender group. To an old "dude" like me it just sounds awkward....

[doc03]

9. I think everyone is called "Dude" today, I have been called worse, I guess. nt

[Hassler]

10. My millennial daughter and her husband call each other dude

[TommieMommy]

12. Yes it sounds weird to me too

[AZJonnie]

13. I remember other kids teasing me because I was calling guys "dude" in like 1982

As in, as far as I could tell, I was the only one who used the word in my entire high school.

I'm pretty sure I got it from my dad, who grew up in a somewhat poor, let's call it "inner city" type neighborhood in the 50's/60's, and was also a Teamster in the same area after school, and Teamsters there were VERY diverse. Whereas where I lived in 1982 was white suburbia (funnily enough only like 20 miles from where my dad grew up, but a very different place. If you know the difference between, say, Hunter's Point, SF vs Montclair in the Oakland Hills, you'd get an equivalent in both distance and culture).

Anyways, I feel vindicated now that practically everyone uses the word "dude", even for dudettes. I was totally right and ahead of my time and those other kids were stupidheads for teasing me

[milestogo]

14. If someone says that to me I just tell them "I am not a dude"

I am not a "girl" or a "gal" either.