Current Events > Spanish utilizes feminine and masculine words.

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Ain't nobody cancel that s*** yet.

They literally tried to rename Latinos/Latinas as as gender neutral Latinx.

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That didn't take off too well.

FortuneCookie posted...

They literally tried to rename Latinos/Latinas as as gender neutral Latinx.

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a latin american queer community started that for use amongst themselves

Yeeesss so does every other language in the world.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

Yeeesss so does every other language in the world.

Los las
The the

Shabriri posted...

a latin american queer community started that for use amongst themselves

Yep, but don't expect people that just want to dunk on queer people to care

Every Romance language does.

There is exactly zero point to masculine/feminine differences in grammatical systems. Every language in which this is a thing should collectively stop doing that nonsense starting right now.

Latino wasn't even coined by the Spanish speaking countries. The French coined it to describe romance speaking colonies in an attempt to try to create some sort of solidarity against English speaking colonies.

It's really weird how far Latino/Latina has made it in usage in the world.

**Edit: It was the term Latin America, not specifically Latino/Latina. My mistake. This is why you look up references before you start posting

"The term Latin America was coined in the 1860s when the French emperor Napoleon III was trying to extend French imperial control over the whole region. He and his ministers used the term to try to suggest at least some degree of cultural similarity between the region and France."

FaultyCircuitry posted...

Yep, but don't expect people that just want to dunk on queer people to care

true. it's full on culture war bullshit now

I'm still gonna correct that often repeated lie that it was just white people outgroups condescendingly obligating latin american people to change their linguistic conventions

Older forms of English kept Latin's gender-specific suffixes tor and trix; -tor is for men and -trix is for women. So a male pilot is an aviator, a female pilot is an aviatrix. A male fighter is a gladiator, a female fighter is a gladiatrix.
This contrasts with the modern system, where tor is for both men and women, and trix are for kids.

Amigxs
bonitx
hermanx

Shabriri posted...

I'm still gonna correct that often repeated lie that it was just white people outgroups condescendingly obligating latin american people to change their linguistic conventions

I live in an incredibly large, diverse area and the only people I've known to even acknowledge the existence of that term were white women. You're not wrong that the term wasn't coined by condescending white women, though.

SoIidLegacy posted...

There is exactly zero point to masculine/feminine differences in grammatical systems. Every language in which this is a thing should collectively stop doing that nonsense starting right now.

More like you guys should start doing it as well

Sexypwnstar posted...

Amigxs
bonitx
hermanx

Still not as bad as "les nies".

CRON posted...

I live in an incredibly large, diverse area and the only people I've known to even acknowledge the existence of that term were white women. You're not wrong that the term wasn't coined by condescending white women, though.

because it's an extremely niche term that's been coopted for hollow liberal pandering and far right culture war bullshit

JuanCarlos1 posted...

More like you guys should start doing it as well

I am Dutch, and I also speak French and German well enough to get by. All of those languages already have to deal with that shit for no reason.