I see this phrase used a lot on blahaj lemmy. I’m actually bi but I don’t really like using the word ‘folk’ over ‘people’… it just kinda sounds pretentious, I don’t want to be described like a mythical creature

  • AdaA
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    7 months ago

    Folk is a gender neutral alternative to guys/girls etc. It’s used where you might use a term like that, not where you’d use “people”

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      7 months ago

      Do people still use folx as a gender neutral alternative to an already gender neutral word or was that not as much of a thing as it seemed

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        7 months ago

        It was never really a thing in my experience.