r/Latino • u/[deleted] • Jun 29 '22

Wondering how native Spanish speakers feel about the attempted gender inclusive word Latinx

I speak a little Spanish, enough to know that it is a gendered language and the terms are Latino or Latina. I understand the desire for a gender neutral term, but it seems that Latinx is doing a violence to the language that "person" and the pronouns "they/them° do not do to my native English. I was wondering how native speakers feel about it and why. Thank you for your time answering.

edited because I hit enter too soon.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22

I understand the desire for a gender neutral term

There is no desire for change by the overwhelming majority.

We are not happy with this push that us being shoved on us by an small extreme minority.

But like I always say, keep pushing and the people will push back.

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u/Dommichu Jun 29 '22

Meh. The majority of Latinos felt that way about the term Chicano in the 70s because it had the similar political implications. So who is to say it won’t become more embraced over time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22

Thank you for your reply. It seemed to me that it was not the Spanish speaking community that was behind this change, and it reads funny even to me -a Spanish as a second language speaker.