I guess this is meant to be a flex, but I don’t give a shit if you call me Daddy or dude or ma’am or Tinydick Asshands. Your verbal tics are none of my business. I call everybody dude and I don’t care if they like it.

I will never call you by your dead name, but I will absolutely call you dude regardless of your gender or gender presentation. I call my female cat dude. I call Claude AI dude. I also refer to people of all gender presentation as “kitten” because it’s funny to me and it makes people mad.

I’m not sure why this is a hill some people want to die on, but so will I. I will use whatever generic form of address pleases me. If you don’t like it, you absolutely don’t have to talk to me, dude