WATCH: Leftist Group Lectures Men: Stop Referring To Women As ‘Guys’

In a new video from NowThis, NowThis producer Foluke Tuakli theorizes that people should stop using the term “guys” to refer to women because it is it ignores “the cognitive impact on women” and “seems lazy, inconsiderate, and a small part of what reinforces the gender hierarchy today.” In her effort to be perfectly politically correct, she says that to some people a word like “guys” may “dehumanize them on a macro scale, minimizing his, her, its, their right to respect and equality.”

Tuakli begins, “‘Guys’ is a simple term. It could mean boys; or if you’re modern, hip, it means people. At first glance, ‘guys’ seems inviting, friendly, maybe warm, even comedic at times. But, it, like many default terms, should not be normalized as an all-encompassing phrase, innocent as it may seem. While we may understand the word means no real harm,” she acknowledges, “with a deeper look you’ll understand that we’ve been ignoring the cognitive impact on women, as well as gender non-conforming folks by only explicitly addressing the male-identifying individuals present.”