Is it ok to call Dudes female?

[ccharles000]

[LaurenG]

1. You mean call females "dude"...

I use the term "dude" for females if I know them well enough. I use it like I would "friend."

Or do you mean to screw with someone's gender identity and call a male a female? Because that's not ok unless the dude prefers it.

[3.14158675309]

2. Dude looks like a lady

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbsBJmx-m2s

[ThomCat]

3. I had a sales person on the phone call me "Ma'am" several times

even after I politely told her that she was talking to "Mister Kulesa."

She apparently felt it was okay to call a dude female. :P

I have a very obviously male voice too. I don't know what the confusion was.

[Forkboy]

4. When I had long hair it happened to me a lot.

Of course, my 38dd breasts might have had something to do with it, too.

:hide:

[NewJeffCT]

5. I've never had it happen to me before

I can see somebody making a mistake on it, but I wouldn't purposely call a guy "female" or vice versa.

[mwooldri]

6. Yep. OK to call females "guy" too. nt