<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 2, 2024, 1:15 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_197796854756374313WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">That presentation was scrapped. The Mexican family we consulted designed a presentation, which is now the official one used by the Monterey Bay council. That family is now the Monterey Bay council’s chair of LatinO outreach. They had to explain to us that the term LatinO is gender neutral, that LatinA is gender specific, that LatinX is specifically gay.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Who knew?</p></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">...that language matters? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ironic that the inclusiveness that "latinx" tries to foster doesn't cross a cultural divide from American english to ... likely anywhere with a strong ethnic identity associated with language - including gendered words.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">How is that pronounced, anyway?</div><div dir="auto">La-tinks? Latin-eks? La-tinsh?</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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