It&#x27;s not incorrect. Guy does mean &quot;a man.&quot; Gal means &quot;a woman.&quot; Those are their uses today. They are as gendered as &quot;man&quot;.<p>And just so I can get really pedantic: gender is inferred as a context of speech. If you are calling a cis-woman &quot;guy&quot; or &quot;dude&quot;, it is inferred you are speaking colloquially. If you call a transwoman &quot;guy&quot; or &quot;dude&quot;, it is inferred [by the subject] that you are mis-gendering them, and is offensive.<p>And more to the point of the context of the (now-deleted) comment: if you say &quot;guy&quot;, &quot;he&quot;, &quot;him&quot;, and &quot;dude&quot; all about the same subject, you are calling the subject a man. You can&#x27;t argue your way around blatantly misgendering someone multiple times.