If we insist on mutilating Spanish to satisfy intellectual fads, something like "Latine" would be better. The broader issue is that having grammatical noun cla

If we insist on mutilating Spanish to satisfy intellectual fads, something like "Latine" would be better. The broader issue is that having grammatical noun classes/gender serves an important purpose: not enforcing the patriarchy, but instead disambiguating different words and antecedents (basically adding an extra bit or two of information to a word).