Randomgal

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[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In theory? I would use Latino, as in terms of pure grammar this is the correct answer, it's not about the gender of the person, it's about constructing the sentence following appropriate grammar.

In practice? I would just ask what they prefer. Lol

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 143 points 1 year ago (54 children)

A bit ignorant take. Grammatical gender does not always imply the actual gender of the subject, and Spanish can easily form gender neutral-nouns or sentences. For example: "persona no binaria" is entirely made with "feminine" words, but it's meaning (non-binary person) is entirely gender-neutral.

This is also why most Spanish speakers make fun of anglophones who use "latix". It's embarrassing, condescending and completely unnecessary, it shows a lack of understanding of how Spanish is actually used by it's speakers

Here's another common way to make gender-neutral Spanish, while making it explicit:

Take the sentence "The workers are radicalizing." Workers is "Trabajadores" a masculine-plural word. The Royal Academy of Spanish Language, clarifies that the maculine form of any noun includes participants of any gender, so to say "Los Trabajadores se están radicalizando" would be grammatically correct, and no Spanish speaker would really asume you only have male workers. However, to make inclusion more explicit, it isn't uncommon for companies to use double articles: "Las y los trabajadores se están radicalizando." Notice that the noun has remained in masculine form, instead the articles have been used to make it explicit that the writer does see gender as a binary. You would see this in office-settings, but as you can hopefully see. Doing it like this actually reinforces the binary perspective, rather than the other way around.

TL&DR: Use "Latino/a" or "Hispanic", instead of "Latix" if you don't want your maid and gardener to laugh their asses off at your expense. Also, all words in Spanish have gender, that doesn't mean all people have to as well.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For extra 8.99 you get an alert any time they get untied.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

So, doing nothing. Got it.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are you arguing for? Because it seems you're championing doing nothing.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, we can't actually. That's why it isn't done. It's science fiction, even if the math checks out.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah this post seems a bit biased. It completely ignores parts of this journey such as brutally training paramilitary militias. Idk about a full blown documentary, but there's a "History vs Che Guevara" video you can watch as a less biased starting point.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you seriously co.parong having your shitty Internet comments scrapped by AI to someone actually raping you? Wtf?

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

You must be really fun at parties.

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