@michelle, don't forget is a Bitcoin discussion thread, using the word crypto may implies including altcoins which is not included in the topic of discussion.
I think you are getting something wrong here. Bitcoin is the crypto itself. Every other coins you see today were built around bitcoin. Many people only know bitcoin when they hear the word crypto. There are people out there today who doesn't know that other coins exist, so when they hear about crypto the first thing that comes to their mind is bitcoin. Bitcoin is the crypto currency, if you are not aware of this know it today. If he had mentioned alt coins then you can say he is referring to other coins. So @Michelle is not talking out of point when he used the word crypto. If you see a newbie that has no knowledge about bitcoin investment, ask him or her what is crypto, I bet you the person will mention bitcoin.
In the earlier part of this thread, if I'm not mistaken, I think @JayJuanGee stressed the need to avoid using the word "cryptocurrency" when generalizing Bitcoin and the other coins out there. The reason being that while many funny things have been done leveraging on cryptocurrency, Bitcoin have remained clean since inception and people tend to taint the image of Bitcoin whenever they unleash their clandestine plots. Therefore, such clarifications is important and we must make effort to make people understand that Bitcoin is different from whatever people promote under the guise of cryptocurrency with the intent to steal.
In addition, I don't think there is officially any word like "crypto" rather it was coined as an abbreviation for cryptocurrency. So instead of regarding Bitcoin as crypto, why not we just address it as Bitcoin which is by all standard more popular and acceptable to all!
Crypto is a general term and I think we need to understand this, bitcoin has a name and we should try to call it that way, saying crypto can confuse others to think that the rules and conditions that apply to bitcoin apply to other coins, and as we know other coins include shit coin which are mostly worthless and they all depend on bitcoin to have value. Using the word crypto is going off topic in this thread.