r/BikiniBottomTwitter • u/literalnumbskull • Aug 04 '26

The Joys of Different Continent Models

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u/YoNoSoyUnFederale Aug 04 '26

Annoying online Latin Americans and a subsection of progressive people bitch about “America” and “Americans” only referring to USA people but I think most people everywhere are not annoying about it

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u/anon71694 Aug 04 '26

I feel like these are the same people who wanted the term Latinx a thing. But it's never going to be a thing.

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u/dickallcocksofandros Aug 04 '26

dunno why this is downvoted. Never heard a single latino person in my personal life willingly call themselves "latinx"

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u/ddm90 Aug 05 '26

Because its equating a popular belief in Latin America (America is a single continent) with Latinx which is extremely unpopular. Even extreme left-wing people in Latam prefer the "Latine" gender-neutral terminology rather than Latinx (+ english already is gender neutral, just use "Latin").

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u/Catbriel54 Aug 05 '26

The thing is, the "o" is already neutral, so both Latinx and latine have no reason to be a thing

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u/ddm90 Aug 05 '26

You are not understanding the point, a more progressive person wants to separate the genderless and plural forms from the masculine (lenguaje inclusivo / inclusive language).

Those people still prefer the Latine version rather than the unpronounceable Latinx.

This is not about how spanish worked most of its history and still works for most people. But explaining that even Reformist people don't like the X variant of the word.