Talk:Cinder Fall/@comment-32354841-20180225054819/@comment-4010415-20180228063902

Honestly, it's not our fault, nor the internet's fault. "Dude" stopped meaning "city slicker"/"city boy" in the 1960s. Being a 90s kid, can you blame me for growing up with "dude" simply being an informal way to refer to a person without it being an insult?

Also: "As the word gained popularity and reached the coasts of the U.S. and traveled between borders, variations of the slang began to pop up such as the female versions of dudette and dudines; however, they were short lived due to dude also gaining a neutral gender connotation and some linguists see the female versions as more artificial slang." <- It's like I said, dude is now just an informal way to refer to people and has become gender neutral, rather than exclusively referring to males.

I will admit, I was always confused as to why a "dude ranch" is called what it's called.