As a Southern lady, I don't feel comfortable with "you guys". A guy is a guy...no way that could refer to me or to other females. I always wondered why people used that term. Y'all is either gender and sooooo easy to say!
"You guys" ain't no way to address y'all!
Hey, northerners -
All y'all's base are belong to us.
[grin]
You are right. My little sister, 7 years younger, had one of the girl teen mags and I was reading it. I read an article about a junior miss pageant, and one of the remarks from a Southern entrant was something like "Y'all say 'you guys' all the time. I keep looking for the guys!" Somehow that stuck in my head!