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While "guys" might feel mildly offensive to some people, it has been used here by several posters and no one has made a fuss about it. The word that caused the current outcry and this thread, was "men". I have never seen anyone addressing a mixed group as "men" either here or elsewhere, by native English speakers or others. Moreover, the poster used it twice in two different threads and when another poster asked them (politely) not to use it anymore, they just replied "Let's chill". That seemed pretty provocative to me. Not like someone who used the word "men" innocently - why not apologize and explain in that case? It must have been clear people found it offensive.
I guess it's possible the poster is from a culture where men and women really do use different forums and didn't expect to actually meet women here... who knows, as they didn't explain what they meant by "men".
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