Hey You Gays Filter

By Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)How It Is

Are you tired of people always saying ‘guys’ when they’re talking to a mixed gender group of people? I know I am. One weekend I got four (yes four) comments about my code saying “You guys should…” or “Ask the guys who …” and so on.

All implied I wasn’t the human who wrote the code. Spoiler alert. I was. While I can’t fix the world out there, I do tend to reply with a handy gif:

Eowyn from Lord of the Rings, pulling off her helm and shouting I AM NO MAN before killing a wraith and saving everyone.

But I can fix MY site. Since I only need this for comments on my site (I’m in charge of how I write), I can use this:

add_filter( 'comment_text' , 'hey_you_gays', 11 );
 
function hey_you_gays( $text ) {
    static $dblq = false;
      if ( false === $dblq )
        $dblq = _x('“', 'opening curly quote');
      return str_replace(
        array( ' guys', '‘guys', $dblq . 'guys', '> guys', '(guys' ),
        array( ' guys', '‘gays', $dblq . 'gays', '> gays', '(gays' ),
      $text );
}

If you need to use it in titles and post content, steal the code from capital_P_dangit(). After all, that’s what we do.