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[–]IX-Hispana 26 insightful - 4 fun26 insightful - 3 fun27 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

Yes, universities in Spanish speaking countries push it. The university of Buenos Aires recently ruled students could use made up genders in their assignments. We're basically where the US was in 2015, with liberal academia acting up and mainstream culture brushing it off as "just some college kids" who will change when they go into "the real world".

Argentinian youths are using "e" as a neutral gender in addition of the traditionally masculine/neutral "o" and the feminine "a". They write things like "les hijes" instead of "los hijos".

In Spain, the minister of equality (a communist by conviction), became a bit of a laughinstock in a campaign event for using made up genders. I think that's a mistake. We laugh now but we've seen how they've taken over in America. Laughing at them doesn't stop them.

[–]GreenScreen[S] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Interesting, so is there an Spanish equivalent in normal usage of 'they' as in indetermined gender, which is now being used rather than 'he' or 'her?

[–]r2d2_21 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

so is there an Spanish equivalent in normal usage of 'they' as in indetermined gender,

Not quite. Spanish has “él” = (he) and “ella” = (she), but the indeterminate gender is also “él”. In general, anything that has no gender or both genders (like a group of people) just defaults to the male gender.

The reason “les hijes” is so ridiculous is because the -e suffix doesn't exist, it's 100% an invention for this gender nonsense. I'd say it's similar to using “xe/xer”, but if you defined “xe/xer” to be the gender neutral pronoun.

[–]WouldYouFightAPanda 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In general, anything that has no gender or both genders (like a group of people) just defaults to the male gender.

I remember this being a big topic back when wokeism started to gain steam, as one of the original "we need to de-gender language!" examples. It was obviously the machinations of the Patriarchy that determined masculine to be the default.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

God speed Spain and Argentina. Though I heard that Argentina outside of Buenos Aires is based, but I could be wrong.

[–]Cass 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Isn't this causing the rise of the far right as a reaction, like it does in Sweden and other countries?