I think about this sometimes. I’m not sure if it’s like the word “guys” or not but I’ve defaulted to just not calling trans women it even if I call cis women nigga because it’s unclear. It’s weird because if I said “niggas” it could be a group of all men or a mixed gender group but not a group of women. However, With all the black women friends I’ve had the word has been used to refer to each other and to men
The word could be used as a slur against women as well. All black people can be niggas. Not just men. So it could be gender neutral??
Also I’ve found that white people mostly see “niggas” as solely referring to black men but who cares what they think? Not me.
great question tbh. i was gonna say i don’t think it matters imo but sometimes i do see people say “that’s a nigga?” when they think a woman is trans. so that is them saying “nigga” is a man in that context? idk. it’s subjective ig. it wouldn’t bother me
Yeah, I think it’s like the word “guy” with a little bit more ambiguity to its gender. Like you wouldn’t look at a girl sideways for calling another girl “nigga” but you also wouldn’t point at a girl and say “thats a nigga.”