@Rusty: Although it has happened a couple of times here in the forums, I always assume nobody has to know my gender, so I usually don't mind. Of course I started to wonder when I told someone I was a woman and they kept using "man". However, also people I know from other places --people I've known for many years and people who definitely know I am a woman-- started to use those expressions, so I thought there must be something else about it. Now I can more or less infer what is inside those heads.
@Shazam: The use of the word "buey/güey/wey" has changed a lot since the last ten years or so. From being an insult, now it's used as "bro", "dude" and the like.
And from being used exclusively among men, now it's overwhelmingly common to hear men and women calling each other "wey". It has entirely lost its meaning.
Last time I told a bunch of young people what they were saying, I was left in total estrangement.
