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Indeed, the data presented here confirm that dude is an address term that is used mostly by young men to address other young men; however, its use has expanded so that it is now used as a general address term for a group (same or mixed gender), and by and to women.
Dude indexes a stance of effortlessness (or laziness, depending on the perspective of the hearer), largely because of its origins in the âsurferâ and âdruggieâ subcultures in which such stances are valued. The reason young men use this term is precisely that dude indexes this stance of cool solidarity.