Reblog if you have used dude as a non gender specific term.
where I grew up in California not only is “dude” generally non-gender-specific, half of the time it doesn’t even refer to a person at all.
I said it to a faucet today.
I use it to curse the weather.
I pretty much have used it as every part of a sentence at some point today.
I use ‘dude’ indiscriminately for all genders, species, and inanimate appliances.