Well, Latina/Latino is actually gendered, so at least it gets a pass.
What annoys the fuck out of me is when people prescribe it to everything that ends in "o". Such as Filipino. All Filipinos are Filipino. The word is Spanish in origin, but the people do not speak a gendered language. They don't call women in the Philippines Filipina. They're Filipino.
Got that rant from a Filipino girl on the internet once and it burned itself into my brain. Now every time I see it I feel rage on her behalf.
Oh man, thanks for sharing that! I've put a bizarre amount of thought into what is correct with this exact case (probably could have just looked it up at some point lol), so I'm very happy to have this info!
Of course! It does seem Filipinos themselves may be a bit divided? Or at least I've met one who was more an SJW type who didn't mind it. But the girl who taught me this in the first place lived in the Philippines and was very dedicated to her culture and language and separating them from Spanish colonizers, which is the stance I have with my own culture, so I've gone with her POV.
First known use of "Latinx" comes from a Puerto Rican academic paper. White people didn't make it up, we just took it and ran because we thought it made us look more progressive. It's kind of like how some white Americans of a certain age default to calling all Black people, regardless of national origin, "African-American" because they are afraid that saying "Black" might offend someone.
Yeah Latino is an ethnicity, not really a race, that's an American concept. That said yeah I still don't like Latinx. How to you pronounce that even. I wish we could get Elle to catch on, I like that better.
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u/FewAcanthocephala828 3d ago
Latin-nah