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galdosdi | 1 year ago
This is exactly how I and most other Spanish-speaking hispanics I've talked to about it take it. It's usually someone who doesn't know Spanish using it, and the implication is that something is wrong with our language and anglos need to fix it for us (and that we're so backwards that even anglos who don't know our language are more qualified to fix it for us than we ourselves our, in our poor foolish backwardness)
Anyone who knew Spanish well would know that grammatical gender is vestigial and often meaningless. Why are rocks female but boats male? Why are cars male and trucks female? It's nothing to do with semantics anymore than there is an extant meaning to why in English i comes before e except after c other when said like a as in neighbor and weigh, etc.
But of course, the advocates for this nonsense don't know Spanish. When I do hear someone of latin heritage embrace latinx, invariably I find the are monolingual English-speakers who were not taught Spanish by their ancestors.
It's reminiscent of the "machismo" slur-- anglos using "macho" as a stereotype of toxic masculinity, even though the worst toxic masculinity I've seen is by far has been in the US, not Latin America.
It's all just a way to update anti-hispanic sentiment to account for modern progressive attitudes. Of course, that sort of thing went on 100 years ago too. The progressive-for-the-day attitudes were used to bludgeon Irish and Italian and other immigrants too then, you know.
If you want to "fix" my language I invite you to do so-- right after you finish learning it well enough to converse at even just a very basic 5th grade level. Until then, mind your business.
Gibbon1|1 year ago
It bothers me because I feel there are political repercussions I don't like. Because the people trying to force Latinx on Hispanics keep trying to force people to think of them as an oppressed minority. That's a problem because they're trying impose a low status. That's never a winner.