is saying "latino and latina's" really that controversial to an actual latino and latina in the states?

i'm from Asia so i have no clue whats going over there but my south american homies living here really dgaf

most def

It absolutely is, latino is already gender inclusive

if its weird/bs it most likely came from white people

& twitter

Yes

Yes

yea

According to my hispanic friends it is

Yep

It’s not my place to really speak on this but I’ve seen Latinas use that on twitter and Facebook. This would be the wrong place to ask that tho.

no

It's an academia word. Mostly scholars and activist use the term.

sounds like some twitter bs.

US latinos and latinamericans are different

I get the intent 100%, but on execution it just feels stupid and disrespectful towards the Spanish language. if you actually speak the language you'd know there's lots of gender neutral words that use either of the masculine/feminine terms. Calling people Latinx is like if we started calling people personxs in Spanish. I don't get the media's fascination with this term, they listen to most outrages from other cultures but not hispanics/latinos apparently. You know how people nickname soft people "snowflakes"? In hispanic communities I see a lot of people call them Latinx instead, that's how much this movement is disliked amongst hispanics/latinos.

Hell yea

I think it’s pretty asinine whatever it is

im Mexican and think its kinda silly

yes white people are trying to tell us how to feel and its f***ing disrespectful

I don't understand the question

when referring to the latin population, you say latinos. but as of late white people who are unaware of our culture think that the word "latino" is masculine and noninclusive so they think "latinx" is the right way of saying/spelling it. dumb white people trying to advocate for s*** that they're not even a part of

If you think about it. Wouldn’t every Spanish speaker start saying Americanx, Francesx, europex etc. ?

Aren't you white?

ohhh I've never heard of latinx so i was confused this makes sense now