In the Service Station buying a paper. The guy was stacking shelves down at floor level.
“I will just get a Paper, Mate” (Mate is what we call guys we do not know")
The Guy stood up and was a Gal. Looked like a guy to me 
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what’s the feminine equivalent of “mate”?
There really is not one.
Mate can be used, but I never use it. Neither have I heard it used for females.
In Yorkshire it’s ‘love’ or ‘duck’…
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Yes but women say that to men
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Easy to do in this day and age Bretrick, couldn’t have happened back in the fifties and sixties in a South Yorkshire mining village.
If it was someone working in a shop, it was a girl or woman, all the blokes worked down the pit…
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Did you post a rude word? Did it include lederhosen?
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No you are right Dachs (were right) it’s just meant as a way to be friendly when you don’t know the persons name. Although I’d raise an eyebrow if a bloke called me ‘love’…
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No, I hadn’t seen your post .
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yes it seems ok to call the opposite sex love or duck, but not each other
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Ive heard mate used for women too.
wouldn’t seem out of place in situation in OP for either.
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I had heard it used for men by women but then I wasn’t sure if women would use it for other women, too.
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Is lederhosen a rude word?
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depends on the context
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Were you looking at the head or the ass 
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It used to be “darl” but you don’t hear that so much now but “mate” is used for females these days.
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It’s different, I know, but I was occasionally surprised when I discovered that a forum member who I thought was male turned out to be female. User names do not always indicate this unequivocally and quite often there’s no clue in the profile info.
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Yes, same happened to me there is one on here who I was sure was male but turned out to be a female Their profile still doesn’t indicate gender.
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