Results: Alliterative Inclusiveness
Published on 02/19/2019
What do YOU call groups of sexually heterogenous people (males and females together), AND do you like to start those words with the same consonant sound(s)?
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Are you someone who tends to refer to groups of male and female people together by neutral plural nouns or pronouns that make no or minimal reference to sex (or, if you insist, or gender), such as y'all/you all, everyone, everybody, people and/or, in the generic sense, guys? Yes
26%
574 votes
No
20%
438 votes
It depends on the group to I'm referring.
34%
746 votes
I rarely or never have occasion to refer to groups of sexually heterogenous people.
21%
466 votes
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2.
If you do like to note groups of sexually heterogeneous people by their sex, which of these alliterative pairs do you like, even if you're wont use them yourself? Gals and guys
13%
299 votes
Girls and guys
29%
640 votes
Dames and dudes
3%
71 votes
Lasses/Lassies and lads
3%
60 votes
Other/s unilsted above (which I may mention in a comment)
7%
145 votes
None of them!
52%
1163 votes
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Not counting instances of people with gender dysphoria, a topic I won't broach with this survey, and without one requesting to be addressed in a preferred manner, what pronoun are you more inclined to use to address a genuine physiological hermaphrodite (person possessing both sexes' sexual characteristics)? She
5%
117 votes
He
6%
132 votes
They
19%
429 votes
If possibnle, I'd try to avoid such references until being able to know what the person wants to be called.
70%
1546 votes
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