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.
Am I the only one who reads LatinX as rhyming with larynx?
I read it as a Latino fetish porn site.
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.
“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
My experience is also your experience.
I am trans and Latina and it is totally a thing. We have queer people too, we come in all the normal colors and a few weird ones too.
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.
LatinEs
irish american
3/78ths irish. The fries you get at McDonalds are more irish than them
People don’t understand that if you make shit up you just get laughed at
That depends on what you make up. If you make up the right thing you’ll get celebrated by other people who like to make things up.
The colonizer is strong in this one.
Hush now, she just loves really hard.
Leave it to a white person to think they just get to use words however they want regardless of their actual definitions. SMH
You know latinx was coined by actually queer/NB latinx people, right? It’s not just a white people thing.
