Thank you for not calling us LatinX, I’ve yet to meet a Latino who doesn’t hate that.
I’ve never understood LatinX. Is it supposed to be a gender neural Latino/Latina? I’m only a Spanish beginner but I’m fairly sure Latino can be masculine and gender neutral.
“LatinX” was indeed the first attempt at a gender neutral description. “Latino” is still considered by many native speakers to be “neutral”, but the most feasible solution I’ve seen popping up is the “latine” (as in “estudiante”, “vigilante”, etc). Since it uses an explicitly non-gendered suffix, it is more correctly inclusive than the “latino”. It will take a while though, und until it is really widely adopted.
“Latino” is still considered by many native speakers to be “neutral”
So like, is there any sizeable Latin community actually calling for a gender neutral term or is this just a middle-class white people thing? Because as a white person I’ve never seen anyone push for this other than white people and it just seems like a white savior/ daddy knows best thing. But my experience is just my experience
I swear I replied to this and then both my reply and your comment disappeared 🤷🏼♀️
Thank you for the explanation. Is “le” as an indirect object pronoun the same kind of gender neutral example? I’m really struggling with that atm. Every noun is going to be gendered except him and her?! I suck at languages.
If someone knows a YouTube video or something about this, I’d be interested.
We already have “Latin”, which has been in common use for generations.
Not to mention who gives a shit about gendered language. It’s a non issue.
Anyone who teaches at a university should be banned from trying to come up with new words, they’re invariably so removed from real life they don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. Ivory tower bullshit.
It was first seen in online queer activist circles around 2004. You can read a little about it here. Latino is traditionally masc/neutral but English style guides also said the same about “he” when referring to someone of unknown or unspecified gender for a long time, which has largely fallen out of use for singular “they” now.
Personally, I don’t use Latinx in writing to refer to all Latinos/Latinas as polling has shown only 2-3% of people readily identify with it. But I do think you absolutely should use it if that’s how someone personally identifies.
I’m not Latino, but I feel like that would annoy me. Latin@ as well. The language is gendered, trying to eliminate that is absurd.
It’s coming around though. My gf watches a garbage amount of influencer bullshit, mostly mainstream streamers and such, and I’ve heard it quite a number of times.
How many of them are actually Latino though? It seems like a term created and made popular by white liberals
Lol all of them. We in Mexico. You’d probably be surprised that lgbtq people exist here on huge and proud numbers. Or would you also just assume they’re white liberals cosplaying?
A mi no me molesta, los de habla inglesa estan tratando de mejorar. Si algun latino lo dice en castellano ahi empiezan los problemas.
perdoname la mala autografia
A mí tampoco me molesta ni que lo digan en español. La verdad no entiendo todo este lío que parece provenir de algún tipo de orgullo antimalinchista. 🤷♂️
Digo, tenemos hasta un antro aquí a la vuelta que se llama Xico y en redes seguido lo escriben como Xicx porque su branding es inclusividad.
Gotta be a troll.
irish american
3/78ths irish. The fries you get at McDonalds are more irish than them
I’m here to say something stupid as well. Happy dumbassing everyone!
I haven’t seen a mouthbreathing comment section like this since I left reddit. This is incredible.
So far it isn’t as bad as I feared. It’s very early days though! I’m really keen to create a community where we can discuss any topic including contentious ones respectfully, rather than just avoiding posting anything that could bring out the trolls. I’m hoping the one-warning-then-you’re-banned rule will be sufficient to keep the worst at bay. Please report comments that break the rules if you see them to help keep this community an enjoyable place to be!
The colonizer is strong in this one.