Unpopular opinion
Stop saying Latinx.
Even Spanish speakers can’t pronounce it.
Spanish is a gendered language, you literally cannot “gender neutralize” Espanol. The masculine ending IS the gender neutral form of any word.
It’s extremely self entitled to believe you can suddenly start changing gendered languages, when there is ALREADY gender neutral endings in said languages.
It’s disrespect, because you must not understand these languages if you think it’s such a great idea. IT’S NOT.
Latinx is not the gender neutral ending. Latino is. Mexicano is.
Would you seriously walk up to a Spanish speaker and say “Ellxs son divertidxs, ¿verdad?” When talking about a mixed group of boys and girls.
No, because you’d look so, so stupid, if not confuse the Spanish speaker and also have a VERY hard time pronouncing that.
Stop it.
This is just another example of Americans thinking they know better than the people they’re advocating for.
I’ve been saying this shit for years, nothing makes me more annoyed than Latinx or Latin@. What the hell even are those? It’s just Chicanos thinking they know better than the entire Romance language speaking world.
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