Bad Inventions, linguistics edition! M’Dude’m
I have invented an excellent gender-confused term of address. It is not really gender “neutral”.
Sometimes, when my haircut is just right, strangers address me something like this: “Sir, uh ma’am, uh, sir, uh I mean . . .” and then they trail off in confusion. If my gender presentation confuses people, that’s perfect! I like it to weight a bit more to the masculine side but not to be actually passing as a man.
I present to you the gender-non-conforming, masc-leaning, equivalent to “M’lady” or “Ma’am”: “M’dude’m”.
You’re welcome!
