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[–]MezozoicGay 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

or trans-anything was part

And almost never in history either, it is modern trend. And in general, most of this "gender identity" stuff can exist only in English and similar to English languages, in most languages in the world "neo pronouns" and "gender identity" makes no sense and could not be described without importing from English.

[–]yousaythosethings 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Agreed. I speak languages from a few different families and can say that these shenanigans generally do not work in them. Unfortunately, as I've written about on here, genderism has been affecting the way that Spanish is being taught at prominent American universities and it is constraining classroom social interactions. Because woke people often choose Spanish as a foreign language in school, Professors are literally having to make up words and conjugations to avoid hurting "non-binary" people's feelings, but what is the point of them learning a fake language and subjecting every classmate to hearing this bastardized language if that is not how it will ever be spoken outside the classroom?
Not to mention, most of us learned Spanish in school to be assets to our communities. Good luck being any use as a volunteer in low income Spanish-speaking neighborhoods on any initiative and in immigration clinics if you're going to have to control the speech of the significantly more disadvantaged person who needs your help. Like I've handled visas for human trafficking victims from Central America and I'm just picturing some woke, rich Peewee Herman-looking NB trying to control how a sex-trafficked indigenous Pipil woman from El Salvador who speaks the indigenous Pipil language natively and some Spanish as a second language, speaks to the aforementioned NB in Spanish. And are they never going to study abroad? Just a disaster of a situation all around yet they're the ones yelling "colonization!"

[–]MezozoicGay 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This can be dangerous to kids.

For some reason first thought I had about that is - such kid growed up with "latinx" and other in their mind. Grow up and want to help, lets say people in Mexico. Kid goes there very well intentioned and genuinely wanting to help, then start speaking and calling everyone "latinx" and other stuff - that kid can be killed on place, or people will feel bad from that kid and reject help. And kid will never know why.

[–]LesbianOutlaw 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Grow up and want to help, lets say people in Mexico. Kid goes there very well intentioned and genuinely wanting to help, then start speaking and calling everyone "latinx" and other stuff - that kid can be killed on place

I think that assuming someone will get killed for saying "LatinX" in Mexico is the real racism here.

It's obvious that you have never been to Mexico.

[–]MezozoicGay 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wasn't, I am just judging how it can be here, in some regions here if someone come and will be mocking ukrainian language or ukrainians (and in some regions same but about russian language) - they can be shot on place or heavily beaten by some groups of people (especially now, when a lot of people have illegal guns, stolen from war zone). It is small minority, but that can happen and that happened not once and not twice.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I know this comment is several days old now, but out of pure curiosity, which languages do you speak? English and (I presume) Spanish at least?

[–]zephyranthes 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm studying Japanese. Sex is 性別, nature-separate, no spectrum here. 性 additionally carries the connotation of "unchangeable". Lots of ways to refer to a person (some depend on sex). Pronouns are rude.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

性 additionally carries the connotation of "unchangeable"

In what context?