To be fair, I don’t think “people” are mad. There seems to be a vocal sliver of a minority of people who live to snipe at others.

Make no mistake. This is what white people are supposed to be doing.

the irony of labling Latin as being an Anglophone concoction

I admittedly hammered out a 400-word response before moving downthread and seeing the dude (because, c’mon, it’s a dude) calling women bad mothers and doubling-down on the bullshit 4chan rhetoric. Then he goes out of his way to say he’s not into the really violent or degrading porn—so you know the dude’s sitting on an…

You’re never going to make everybody happy. If these same women had somehow worked and succeeded at getting the policy changed, there would be people saying, “oh great, do they want a cookie?”, or otherwise deriding them for not having acted sooner. I’m not even saying that would be the majority reaction—just that…

There’s a difference between a perfectly reasonable assumption based on years and years of tried-and-true experience—and knowing something for a fact because it was specifically tested and confirmed.

My point is that “Latino” and “Latina” specifically refers to someone from Latin America—South and Central America, and (I would argue) the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. You could correctly call someone from France “Latin” (though I wouldn’t, because it would be confusing despite being technically appropriate), but you…

Folks, dwayneonahottinroof is very clearly some kind of incel troll. Let’s not feed the trolls.

Posted a reply, but after looking downthread it’s obvious you’re some kind incel troll.

“Latin” and “Latino/a” do not mean the same thing. You’re Latin if you come from any country in which the official language originated from Latin. The use of “Latin” to mean specifically people from Latin America (e.g., the cringe-y term “Latin lover”) is an anglophone concoction.

Maybe it’s regional. I was born and raised in Miami (except for five years in San Juan), Spanish was my first language, and I speak it frequently. Whether I say “Latino” or “Latina” is Spanish or English depends on whether I’m speaking Spanish or English. My last name is very obviously Hispanic (it even has a tilde),…

It’s stupid to try to make a gender-neutral version of “Latino/a” or it’s stupid to try to promulgate the use of the term Latinx in actual Spanish?

I’m not sure whether you’re arguing for pronouncing the “Latin-” part of the word the way a Spanish speaker would say it in Spanish, and then just adding the “ex” at the end; or whether you’re saying it makes more sense to pronounce it in the anglicized way and adding the ex. I personally do the latter.

That’s what I do, and I am a native and frequent Spanish speaker. Latinx just isn’t a word in Spanish--so it’s not like I’m shirking away from using the Spanish vowel sounds.

I’ve read papers and seen discussions written by or between Latin American academics and the like discussing what the Spanish-language version of Latinx should be--but yeah, trying to foist “Latinx” (a purely anglophone contrivance) unto Spanish is basically linguistic colonialism.

I’ve not heard it pronounced it that way. I’m not sure why anyone would think to try to recreate the vowel sounds in Spanish for what is very obviously a word invented by English-speakers for use in English.

Because Spanish is gendered (Latino is male; Latina is female), the term ‘Latinx’ is an attempt to create a gender-neutral term for Latin American people.

It’s a word in English, so you would say “Latin” the way you would always say it in English (i.e., as if you were referring to the language spoken by ancient Romans), but you add an “ex” at the end. So, “Latin-ex”, except the ‘n’ should really flow into the ex—there should be no stop.

Amazingly, despite having grown up seeing Prince Charles on TV and tabloids, when I hear or read the name, all I can think of is the actor who plays him on The Windsors. That said, I’m American, so it’s not quite as bad as if I lived in the UK.

It seems like the supreme court already ruled on that...