I've lived in California for 27 of my 41 years, about equally split between SoCal and Northern California, and I have never heard someone call a woman 'dude' without it being a mistake or a joke.
The Atlantic notes that women use "dude" to address other women[1]. I'm not from California, and I'd agree that the most typical usage seems to be towards men, but I have heard women refer to other women as "dude".
There are two distinct uses of "dude". One is as an exclamation (not a form of address). "Dude, I'd never do that" is the approximate example in the article, and a woman might say that to another woman. She is not calling the other woman a dude. Test this claim by trying the following: "Man, I'd never do that." "Gentleman, I'd never do that." "Fellow, I'd never do that." etc. The use of "man" and "dude" as an exclamation has made it into everyday conversation. "Man that sucks!" has become an expression of dismay devoid of gender and indeed not even directed at any particular human.
Then there is the use of "dude" to refer to a specific person (singular). This is a very rare use of "dude" in reference a woman, and usually is used as commentary rather than a literal descriptor, or ironically. "She's such a dude." It is definitely making a comment on gender or stereotypes.
I would be very confused if you referred to me as a dude in everyday conversation, wondering what you were trying to say. On the other hand, I did recently say about myself, "I'm such a dude" when making a comment about my approach to an unfortunately often-gender-stereotyped activity, housekeeping.
They were up most of the day in here (Prague, Czech Republic, Europe), but it's down now (started about 20 minutes ago). It seems to be another wave of the attack.
This looks cool! I'll probably subscribe in the next month or so. You should definitely highlight "from the creators of the Discovery Channel" on the landing because it takes you from "who are these people" to "ohh cool these guys are legit"
True. The problem with DIY labs I think is the barrier to entry. It's really hard to start from nothing to having a DIY lab where you have some idea of what's going on. Maybe an online lab (videos?) is the way to go? My microbio and biotech labs in college did serve me pretty well as far as knowing what the bands in my gel mean, etc.
I should probably begin reading author names when starting to read articles - knowing this was written by Julia Evans would have clued me in on how fun a read this was going to be, and motivated me to cut down on the open-tab-procrastination hours!
> So now we’ve seen the network do a correct thing, and we’ve seen it make an adorable mistake by accident (the queen is wearing a shower cap ).
This is such a Julia sentence, including the suddenly appropriate emoji, it should probably have clued me in.
Edit: HN is breaking my heart with its anti-emoji stance, so (re)read the article to see the quote in its full glory.
Man this article screams "kids today blah blah blah" and is totally ill founded. I was born in 1993 and grew up with video games and now I'm a scientist (anecdotal I know, but this article isn't scientific either). Being a scientist is about asking questions that intrigue you and finding the answer to them. People who want to do this will do this regardless of whether or not they play video games (or do any other leisurely activity like Netflix bingeing).
