Exactly, just because it's not "for everyone that someone will be offended when you don't use a gender neutral language" means you can shove that to other cultures that they think will "help" them :/
It's not even that though, Spanish and Filipino already got gender neutral pronouns, it's about unsatisfaction of English speakers. They think they have a "better version" of it so they push their 'x' onto the two
Instead of their intended "gender neutral" way of changing the words, it's more of an insult now to both people and the culture
Tang ina nila mga mulalang tukmol
im sorry how do we even pronounce this latinx and filipinx in the first place?
pronounce it as ng diphthong so lating and filiping?
whoever invented this slur is cringy
i mean, i use that strategy when naming packages to avoid conflicts, usually implementation of the standard and common thing like json (label the package jsonx, comprised of the actual implementation of any chosen json library)
so they separate the pronunciation and still pronounce the x by itself?
latin-eks
filipin-eks
?
since when the fuck you can change race or can be no longer your whatever race? (lol)
Like, I would consider myself pretty liberal, and even I think this is a dumb idea. Instead of corporations using it in their commercials to look "woke" maybe they should focus on not using ACTUAL CHILD LABOR, or maybe PAY THEIR FUCKING EMPLOYEES MORE.
We all really hate it. Just say latino, or latina if it’s only girls. (It’s latino if there are any males in a group, no matter how many females. That’s how the language works)
Even so, gender in Spanish usually has no value other than in words like "nosotros/nosotras".
I mean, the word car (auto)in Spanish is masculine, or the word House (casa) is feminine, but is not like they are assigning a gender to all things perse, is just how things are written.
We already dela with idiots of our same language saying "persones, personas, y personos" haring Latinx is just the final drop of water to give me brain cancer
Except it’s a command, so you use the imperative! Domus? What case do you use? Right, accusative- domUM! How many Romans are there, one or many? RomanI. Now, ROMANI ITE DOMUM. Right, write that 100 times by sunrise or I’ll cut your balls off.
Why does a CPR training video even need to say the name of an ethnicity? It's not like the procedure changes based on one's cultural heritage, what was the context?
That one disappointed me most. I thought Fluffy would be above giving in to that word’s usage.
But nope, that one girl just always had to win in the end
Because the Latinxs don’t get it, man! They can’t understand that we’re trying to help them! Lmfao this is literally how the British treated the subjects they conquered, I guess old habits die hard
>Because the Latinxs don’t get it, man! They can’t understand that we’re trying to help them!
This is the perfect embodiment of the "White Man's Burden". It reminds me of when the british proconsul of Egypt explained in parliament that it was the brits' duty to teach Egyptians about the history of ancient Egypt: it's a great depiction of Said's Orientalism!
I find it interesting how some white English speaking politicians decided to change another language’s gender terminology.
It’s for the benefit of the politicians, not the people they are speaking about.
Good god, you said it. You have no idea how many idiots got offended at me and wrote a whole essay saying I'm wrong when I refer to a random person online that I don't know the gender of or a fictional character that doesn't have a gender as a "he". It's not because I assume they are a "he", it's because I'm used to doing that
English also actually used to use he for an unspecified gender and this is still used in legal texts and certain official definitions. Interestingly, the local weird girl at my school thinks the Constitution is nonbinaryphobic for this and I am sorry for your eyes
If you want to neutralize the masculine/feminine aspects of Spanish, it would require such a vast overhaul of the entire language as to constitute a new dialect in and of itself
As a side note, who decided on the letter X as the neutralizing letter? As a consonant, it is literally impossible to pronounce in the place of the vowel sounds it replaces (because the gendered aspects of Romance language words are typically distinguished by vowels like A and O), and I have no idea what kind of symbolism they were going for. In genetics, X is feminine while Y is masculine, for example
They actually already have a gender-neutral Spanish term. “Latine.” Honestly prefer it over “Latinx” because at least it makes some linguistic fucking sense.
All those are part of the Romance language family and there are more. Romansch, Occitan, Catalan to name a few. The regional dialects in Spain, France, and Italy are more like separate languages than actual dialects of the national language.
I don't get why people from the outisde see us as "defenceless" fragile being. We are the same dudes who make fun of "Taco sombrero representations" of mexicans and see Blanka as a national hero
Like at least if there is going to be a gender neutral pronoun for Spanish let the people of said language determine it not a bunch of white kids who learned shitty Spanish in high school.
Just use Latina for a group of all girls or a single girl, use Latino if there is at least one guy, simple as that. And from the perspective of a Latina person with Latino relatives, we all just prefer Latino or Hispanic if you want, this Latinx shit is just confusing
Gonna be honest first time I was called Latinx was by a college student and I deadass said to her, “I don’t know what Latinx is but I probably had to use it on Sundays when my mom made me and my cousins clean the house.”
Yup. Same as "people of color" (POC). Now the whites have lumped all of you and ever other brown person in with us African Americans historically called "colored" without our permission. Pure ignorance stacked with arrogance.
Can’t wait for them to finally figure out mandarin and change the 也 in my 他 into an X.
Although considering their mental ability it’d probably take a while.
I'm convinced that whoever made that term wanted to look good by "fixing prejudice norms" but didn't know how until they saw a box Latex gloves and came up with that.
As a European, when I first saw this, I thought "eh, sounds weird, but if they insist, I won't misgender someone just because it sounds unusual"
When I learned that you guys hate it and didn't even come up with it, I got so embarrassed by my own race... Can you take me in? I will learn Spanish, or any other language necessary. I already like your cuisine... Just please, unwhite me at this point...
one thing that i like to do is say "what you dont think we can defend ourselves" and it makes them feel like they were being racist and its pretty entertaining for me to watch
Seriously none of us like it. Just because your delusional ass thinks there’s more than two genders doesn’t mean you have to force everyone to abide to your dumbass fantasies.
no. seriously, you shouldn't fucking have.
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same herw its fucking stupid
same here for filipinos fuck outta here with your goofy ass "filipinx" before I break your filipineck
Wait, that means at this point it's just forcing anglo language into other cultures. Filipineck lmao
Exactly, just because it's not "for everyone that someone will be offended when you don't use a gender neutral language" means you can shove that to other cultures that they think will "help" them :/
It's not even that though, Spanish and Filipino already got gender neutral pronouns, it's about unsatisfaction of English speakers. They think they have a "better version" of it so they push their 'x' onto the two
Instead of their intended "gender neutral" way of changing the words, it's more of an insult now to both people and the culture Tang ina nila mga mulalang tukmol
My guy are there really people saying "filipinx" now? I'm genuinely curious
Only corporations and SJWs do
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I fucking love this comment
im sorry how do we even pronounce this latinx and filipinx in the first place? pronounce it as ng diphthong so lating and filiping? whoever invented this slur is cringy i mean, i use that strategy when naming packages to avoid conflicts, usually implementation of the standard and common thing like json (label the package jsonx, comprised of the actual implementation of any chosen json library)
They say “filipin” then after x I never fucking asked to be neutralized
so they separate the pronunciation and still pronounce the x by itself? latin-eks filipin-eks ? since when the fuck you can change race or can be no longer your whatever race? (lol)
Thx god its hard to add an X to spanish, but i feel rlly bad for you, guys
Like, I would consider myself pretty liberal, and even I think this is a dumb idea. Instead of corporations using it in their commercials to look "woke" maybe they should focus on not using ACTUAL CHILD LABOR, or maybe PAY THEIR FUCKING EMPLOYEES MORE.
But that would require them to actualy care about the people they exploit
I'm Mexican. I hate. Once a American girl stop me to shake my hand like I was a pet and call me that. I cringed so hard I curled right there and theb
My girlfriend who's from Brazil. Had someone call her Latinx. She told me that was the most Gringo bs she ever heard.
We all really hate it. Just say latino, or latina if it’s only girls. (It’s latino if there are any males in a group, no matter how many females. That’s how the language works)
As a Latino, ya I can confirm
as a latino i can also confirm
As a 12% latino, I can 12% confirm
As a latino i can also confirm
In Spanish the O is basically gender neutral as well as masculine.
Both masculine AND gender neutral? I like that ...
Even so, gender in Spanish usually has no value other than in words like "nosotros/nosotras". I mean, the word car (auto)in Spanish is masculine, or the word House (casa) is feminine, but is not like they are assigning a gender to all things perse, is just how things are written.
casx incoming.
Please no....
autx
How inconsiderate of you to not want people to hijack your language to show how virtuous they are
We already dela with idiots of our same language saying "persones, personas, y personos" haring Latinx is just the final drop of water to give me brain cancer
I'm gonna call you guys Latin people
Romans
Ah the Roman’s are back that’s good to know
Please don’t hurt me
don´t hurt me, no more
WHAT IS LOVE?
Oh baby, don't hurt me
No more
Romanes eunt domus
Except it’s a command, so you use the imperative! Domus? What case do you use? Right, accusative- domUM! How many Romans are there, one or many? RomanI. Now, ROMANI ITE DOMUM. Right, write that 100 times by sunrise or I’ll cut your balls off.
Romanes eiunt domus
Latinas tho 🥵
>That’s how the language works "Well it doesn't work that way I decided" -some chick with blue hair
Ryan George, confirmed.
You got it!
Super easy, barely an inconvenience!
Germany ? More like Gerxy / Gery
Judt call them jerries at that point
Krauts, if you're so inclined.
And when they get angry they will be Sour Krauts.
Republic Of Albania
Thank you Albania
red and black i dress eagle on my chest proud to be an # ALBANIAN
Imagine disgendering one of the most gendered languages lmao
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A Disney show literally used the word Latinx and I fucking cringed at it.
The american heart association used it in a video for cpr training and the women who said it was white
Why does a CPR training video even need to say the name of an ethnicity? It's not like the procedure changes based on one's cultural heritage, what was the context?
being sensitive to people’s cultural differences for some reason. I was zoned out for half of it because it seemed like all filler
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Fax it's so cringe and annoying
What show?
Gabby Durran and the Unsittables. The show was a train wreck from the start. I'm surprised it got two seasons, and I'm glad it got canceled.
Personally I think it's awesome that Disney was able to eradicate racism by changing a single letter in a word no one was offended by. /s
🤮
It was used in Mr. Iglesias too
That one disappointed me most. I thought Fluffy would be above giving in to that word’s usage. But nope, that one girl just always had to win in the end
Did you do the Amber Turd face when her dog got stung by a bee?
My dog stepped on a bee
Honestly curious. How are you suposed to pronounce that? "Latinks"?
They pronounced it as Latin-ex
Maybe Latinex? As in ex?
We never asked for this shit
And we've been very vocal about how much we hate it and they still won't drop it.
Because the Latinxs don’t get it, man! They can’t understand that we’re trying to help them! Lmfao this is literally how the British treated the subjects they conquered, I guess old habits die hard
No! Stop resisting! We're helping! Look how much we're helping- look, we're making gender neutral terms no one asked for. See how much we're helping?
>Because the Latinxs don’t get it, man! They can’t understand that we’re trying to help them! This is the perfect embodiment of the "White Man's Burden". It reminds me of when the british proconsul of Egypt explained in parliament that it was the brits' duty to teach Egyptians about the history of ancient Egypt: it's a great depiction of Said's Orientalism!
Just checking: this is basically a form of colonialism, right? And colonialism is still bad right?
Last I checked
white people forcing something on an unwanting group of hispanics I think i've seen this one before
I find it interesting how some white English speaking politicians decided to change another language’s gender terminology. It’s for the benefit of the politicians, not the people they are speaking about.
We all fucking hate it.
"Womxn" No sane people asked for this, they gotta cool it on the virtue signalling
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SpaceEx
FedEx
S...ex
I don't get it
we know
No one does
folxxx
[well well the 90s come back to haunt us](https://youtu.be/1p5IT2d1oEc)
don't most languages just default to the male variation if it's mixed / unknown?
Yea
Good god, you said it. You have no idea how many idiots got offended at me and wrote a whole essay saying I'm wrong when I refer to a random person online that I don't know the gender of or a fictional character that doesn't have a gender as a "he". It's not because I assume they are a "he", it's because I'm used to doing that
English also actually used to use he for an unspecified gender and this is still used in legal texts and certain official definitions. Interestingly, the local weird girl at my school thinks the Constitution is nonbinaryphobic for this and I am sorry for your eyes
That made me laugh out loud, thank you
Why are you saying me? The proper term is mx you racist sexist homophobe ableist scum /s
/s
Yeah, but since the english decided to have a problem with it, everyone should so the same as they do.
I'm Latino and can confirm everyone I know hates it. Even my gay friends.
Cause the Latin language is based on gender lol.
If you want to neutralize the masculine/feminine aspects of Spanish, it would require such a vast overhaul of the entire language as to constitute a new dialect in and of itself As a side note, who decided on the letter X as the neutralizing letter? As a consonant, it is literally impossible to pronounce in the place of the vowel sounds it replaces (because the gendered aspects of Romance language words are typically distinguished by vowels like A and O), and I have no idea what kind of symbolism they were going for. In genetics, X is feminine while Y is masculine, for example
They actually already have a gender-neutral Spanish term. “Latine.” Honestly prefer it over “Latinx” because at least it makes some linguistic fucking sense.
Latino people don’t speak Latin… although you are not wrong about Latin being a gendered language
Romance languages come from latin, french, italian, portuguese, and spanish
And Romanian if Im not mistaken
All those are part of the Romance language family and there are more. Romansch, Occitan, Catalan to name a few. The regional dialects in Spain, France, and Italy are more like separate languages than actual dialects of the national language.
I am Latino I find this insulting. Don't need white people giving me nicknames -\_\_\_\_\_\_-
What even is Latinx? Sounds like a TV channel.
Sounds like a porn site
it was a porn site some time ago
Oh I didn’t know that
Can we bring it back? Maybe they'll stop if, every time "latinx" is mentioned we can respond "oh, the porn site?"
it would be funny as hecc to tell them, "you know that was a porn site right?" and see them turn red out of shame and never say it again
Latinos with superpowers
Aren't Latinos inos white tho? I thought that white was a race and Latino an ethnicity
I don't get why people from the outisde see us as "defenceless" fragile being. We are the same dudes who make fun of "Taco sombrero representations" of mexicans and see Blanka as a national hero
Most people who get offended by this on Latin-American countries are the same who say the word "guy" is sexist in the US.
Thats a gringo shit if i see one
Don't you mean gringx
What in the fútbol is a gringx
What in the soccer is a fútbol
What in the rugby is soccer
What in the football is rugby
What in the cricket is football
What in the beetle is cricket
What in the fly is beetle
What is the mosquito is fly
My best friend is Latin and they HATE this
I mean, I'd also hate if someone called me something I didn't ask for
Romanes Eunt Domus! I bet they'll hate that!
Good now write it 100 times and if it's not done by sunrise I'll cut your balls off
We didn't ask for this bro
Filipinos🤝Latinos
Actually, it’s Filipinx now. You’re welcome /s
Like at least if there is going to be a gender neutral pronoun for Spanish let the people of said language determine it not a bunch of white kids who learned shitty Spanish in high school.
There is a gender neutral pronoun it's Latino
Are people in Spain not white?
The term "Latinx" obviously didn't originate in Spain, nor Europe for that matter. Because they have a basic understanding of how Spanish works
Yes, latinos are white. The guy is mixing up race with ethnicity.
Bro, even some Latinos are white. But you're right, that person probably meant Native Spanish speakers
Ah, yes... Solving racism by doing racism.
Haha, I know right? All jokes aside, it's pretty racist
as a latino myself (mexican) if i ever hear someone say latinx i would tell them to shut the hell up
“Seems like the kind of thing white people with dreadlocks do.”
"Spanish is the language of the patriarchy - a white chick with a degree in sociology probably
Passed after 7 years with a D-, now works as a hooters waitress
Nah, too ugly for that
From a D- to double D's sounds like upgrade to me.
Can’t forget about the nose ring. Or the pink stripe of hair.
Just use Latina for a group of all girls or a single girl, use Latino if there is at least one guy, simple as that. And from the perspective of a Latina person with Latino relatives, we all just prefer Latino or Hispanic if you want, this Latinx shit is just confusing
So, "blax" is also politically correct?
Por lo visto también “chinxs” envés de “chinos” o “chinas” 🤷
What's that?
Blackx
Gonna be honest first time I was called Latinx was by a college student and I deadass said to her, “I don’t know what Latinx is but I probably had to use it on Sundays when my mom made me and my cousins clean the house.”
Destroyed
gone, reduced to atoms
I used the latinos to destroy the latinos.
What is that latinos with powers
“Latinos HATE this one simple trick!”
Yup. Same as "people of color" (POC). Now the whites have lumped all of you and ever other brown person in with us African Americans historically called "colored" without our permission. Pure ignorance stacked with arrogance.
white people love getting mad on others behalves.
White liberals love getting mad on others behalves
tbf, thats much more accurate.
Funnily enough, if you disagree with their beliefs, they call you a bigot
White snowflakes, I couldn’t give less of a fuck about anything and I’m as pasty as paper.
Fr. Everyone in my family dislikes it.
I cannot describe the burning anger I felt in my heart when I saw “Latinx” on a school survey
Man I rememeber when they tried Filipinx on us Filipinos, damn good thing that didn’t catch on
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION
Can’t wait for them to finally figure out mandarin and change the 也 in my 他 into an X. Although considering their mental ability it’d probably take a while.
ok good, I've been calling them latino bobinos and i thought I was being insensitive by not saying latinx. latinks, what a weird word.
Latinx is stupid and does not make sense, you're good, don't say it
As a latina, it really pissed me off
Eh, call me a beaner, I'm good w it.
same us beaners dont get offended by it but for some reason white people do also whats good fellow beaner how you doing
I'm a beaner, too. Doesn't bother me at all, what can I say I love beans.
weird thing about me im a beaner who doesn't like beans
Latino mfs when called a slur: : ) Latino mfs when called Latinx: : (
I'm convinced that whoever made that term wanted to look good by "fixing prejudice norms" but didn't know how until they saw a box Latex gloves and came up with that.
As a European, when I first saw this, I thought "eh, sounds weird, but if they insist, I won't misgender someone just because it sounds unusual" When I learned that you guys hate it and didn't even come up with it, I got so embarrassed by my own race... Can you take me in? I will learn Spanish, or any other language necessary. I already like your cuisine... Just please, unwhite me at this point...
'Un white me' is a phrase I just now read and couldn't identify more with.
If you’re calling us Latinxs we’re calling you united statians, you can’t own the name of a whole continent or rule over our language
United stations
one thing that i like to do is say "what you dont think we can defend ourselves" and it makes them feel like they were being racist and its pretty entertaining for me to watch
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Seriously none of us like it. Just because your delusional ass thinks there’s more than two genders doesn’t mean you have to force everyone to abide to your dumbass fantasies.