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My wife addresses her team of mostly females as 'you guys'. Granted, she's also not a man or in tech, but I am having a hard time seeing how this is sexist.

Now, some of the items on the list are quite good. My mom, for example, is just as technical, or more so, than my dad. She is not a good archetype of the non-technical user.

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You are implying that one woman doing a thing implies that it is alright / not sexist / shouldn't be offensive to other women. I'm not necessarily sure that that follows. (This is independent of whether or not the term 'guys' is sexist or offensive to women or anything else).

Well, OP is implying that a single woman finding something sexist or offensive makes it so. I've presented two counterexamples upthread and grandparent here presented one, that's three. OP presented only two, and one of them is a man who makes his point by conflating the singular and plural forms of "guys".

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