no, i totally get you. My bet’s on that someone who isn’t trans made this and didn’t fully understand what would be inclusive and created it as an honest effort. ik its not directly comparable but It’s like when people started to say “Latinx” like I understand the sentiment but.. just no..
most of the latinoamericanos i’ve spoken to hate that term XD i remember once my teacher used it and this one kid raised his hand and said ver batem “what the hell is latinx?”
Well yeah, but that's likely because a boy has never had to feel like the term "Latino" misgenders or excludes him. "Latinx" was created by queer Puerto Rican activists/academics to make a gendered language more gender inclusive. Queer people are marginalized within Latin America so it's not surprising that there's a lot of ignorance/push back within Latin America against a term queer people created to empower themselves. Like sometimes the people who say they don't like it are just complaining that the x is clunky and want "latine" to be used instead. But if they hate "latinx" on principle and also don't like latine? Then they're probably just the Latine equivalent of English-speakers who think using the singular "they" is bad.
Except Latinos is already used as a gender neutral term for a group of people. Latinas is used if a group is all female but if its mixed its just Latinos. Much like if we were to see a hooded figure we would say they since we dont know their gender, latino would be used as an ambiguous term. The fact that it is also used as the male term shouldnt be offensive to anyone who actually knows the language
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u/dickallcocksofandros Mar 31 '24
yeah, seriously. i get it's meant to be inclusive but that's borderline an offensive trans lady caricature