"dudette"

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This is an old female equivalent of the word "dude". It is rarely heard these days.

I use dude for everyone

The term "dude" originally meant "a tenderfoot", or "tourist"... a poser without the experience and or endurance to ride the range like a real cowboy (as in "a dude ranch").

Then in the late Sixties hippies started to use the term "dude" to mean "mate", or "bro", or "buddy". A male person- but someone you think well of.

Peter Fonda explains the then new term to Jack Nicholson over a campfire in the 1967 movie "Easy Rider". And it soon caught on, and spread beyond the counter culture. And now all Americans address male workmates with "hey dude". Men and women alike will call men "dudes".

But though you see old cartoons and old sitcoms from circa 1970 showing someone at a podium announcing "attention dudes, and dudettes!' (as a kind of joke jab at the then rising counter culture at the time the film clip was made) you NEVER EVER actually EVER heard anyone ever use the word "dudette" in real life.

The term 'dudette' was never a real word.

But for some reason there is no female equivalent to 'dude' either.

Maybe it's a needed thing. Lol!

In cartoons from the late 80's and 90's I remember dudette being used by characters such as Michelangelo as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In my Animal Crossing NL game some of the male characters would refer to me as "ladydude" or "ladybro". I wasn't sure what to think about that. It's kind of like an oxymoron, since it sounds like a "lady" who does things that are generally considered unladylike or masculine. Like a "ladette".

But "lady" already has the word "lad", meaning a boy or young man, in it. So I really don't know.

Oh....that's what that movies called.

Anyways, if I recall there is a very interesting acid trip scene in that movie, never saw the whole thing...as I turned it off when my mom came home because I thought she'd disapprove of the drug use I was like 14 or 15 when I was watching it.(of course she had no problem with me listening to pink floyd even though a good amount of the songs are about psychedelic drugs so maybe she would not have cared if I was watching that movie) I recall the acid trip part and the part after the campfire talk where jack nicholson's character gets killed. But yeah never was able to see the rest since I couldn't remember the name of the movie.

Yes, they trip on acid in a cemetary in New Orleans, as I recall.

It came out when I was 12 or 13 in theaters, so I was too young to see it. Movies in general were changing and would soon have to evolve the now common rating system (before 67 all movies were for general audiences essentially). Everything changed in 67. I had the sound track album- various bands of the time - loved the Steppenwolf song "Born to be Wild", but never actually saw the movie until decades later. My parents sneered at the movie. But your mom is probably of the hippie generation that identified with the movie. She prolly woulda watched it with you. Lol!