I mean... latino can mean a male person of... Spanish-Like-Origins. Or it can mean the entire body of Spanish-Origined-Like People.
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...Except not all Latino/Latina people are American.
You might not care, but more than enough people do care about how they’re labelled and self-labelled that the inclusion of the word into the lexicon is fairly important.
Good for you. The rest of the world, including people who speak Spanish, know the word latino is gendered as male, the word latina is gendered as female, and that latin in Spanish is very rarely ever used to refer to us as a people. There’s also a wide, wide variety of “people that speak Spanish,” who don’t identify…
Language changes start small and then work their way up into modern lexicon over hundreds of years.
Not everyone who uses the term is Latin-American, you dunce.
Mr. Rivera used it. I wasn’t saying the term was popular in everyday use. I’m saying people use it.
Latino is masculine, not neuter, and some Hispanic people do use Latinx.
Except apparently people do use it.
Yeah, language is inflexible and famously has never changed through usage. Any sociolinguist will tell you this.
It’s a recent term. I’ve encountered it among intersectional scholars and activists from Hispanic backgrounds who wanted an alternative to gendered Latino/Latina language.
... whatever.
I was there and you’d think we just won the World Series the way the stadium exploded. I was totally in “here we go again” mode after the top of the 9th, but Frazier’s homer made me a believer again. Everyone was so pumped afterwards walking out of the stadium and cheering that I overheard a little girl say to her…
No, that’s a bitch move.
I said everything I needed or wanted to say about the entitlement that informs EGS rage (and no, I’m not an EGS fan—but come the fuck on) in the previous story on Ooblets.
The only thing I feel a need to add at this point is: if a person’s argument in defense of issuing death threats/sexist epithets/mocked-up photos…
Yes, if only you could.
Sounds to me like Arch Warhammer is a dick.
Relative to profits, wages have been stagnant for about four decades. An anecdote about wages of a few individuals doesn’t change that.
Look, she definitely tossed that cat a bit rougher than I would have but if you’ve ever owned a cat, you know it was just fine.