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I’d just like to appreciate your use of “latin@“; I’ve never seen it before but it’s so much better than “LatinX”
by warning26 4y ago
I’d just like to appreciate your use of “latin@“; I’ve never seen it before but it’s so much better than “LatinX”
- bitwize 4y ago"Latinx" is used because it avoids an unfortunate implication intrinsic to "Latino", "Latina", or "Latin@": the gender binary.
- MockObject 4y agoSo does "Latin", but the point is to publicly signal virtue, hence the eye-catching and bizarre "x".
- pclmulqdq 4y agoYou can't forget about "womxn" and "folx." The insertion of an "x" seems to be more of an attempt to colonize/Lysenkoize the lexicon than to actually be inclusive.
- bitwize 4y agoSticks in your craw, doesn't it, that x? Kinda like how trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people do in our cisnormative society. It is deliberate, and it's intended to acknowledge the presence of something that was always there, but absent from our culture's understanding of the world.
- Dalewyn 4y agoIt's about power and control. He who controls language controls thought. He who controls thought wields absolute power.
- Georgelemental 4y agoAlternatively, you could just use normal Spanish
- warning26 4y agoTrue, I should have specified that actual Spanish should be preferred over any bizarre artificial alternatives