Queer Theory, as opposed to the LGB rights movement defines itself as an identity without an essence. As soon as you know who you are (straight, bi or gay), you've become part of the system. They don't want that; they always want your identity to be in flux so you're always at the margin of society. That's who these neo-marxists use to try and achieve their goal of overthrowing the "system".
Unfortunately true. It was always and ever a conceit. As someone who has worked to respect, protect, and support marginalized groups so they could enjoy full rights and citizenships, NOW I have to fight against these dang wokesters who want to be permanently marginalized and defined as "undefined" so they can be cool and judge the hell out of everyone else. It is exasperating, but as El Gato says, their time is nigh and they will not only get obliterated in November elections but become a running joke for the rest of near-term history. Good riddance. How can you fight against real racism when you have these idiots calling everyone racist, sexist, or "transphobic" (not even a coherent word or concept)except, of course themselves.
My little theory is - I have secretly thought this for a while, Transgenderism and now transhumanism as well! Oh cool, now have the latest artificial intelligence implants. (Their brains will be then completely hacked). Off with the old and on with the new. Sterilisation, messed hormones and conformity.
No more traditional family. No more reading, writing, comprehension and arithmetic in school. Gender studies climate catastrophe etc instead. Many of these people, in my opinion, are pawns of the WEF and WHO. They have uniform accents and fashion. This is most uncool of me to think this. I realise that.
Possom, you are very cool in my book, because you are spot on.
Good news of the day - Kemi Badenoch for the win!!! YES!!! Oh please God. I have family in the U.K., I would really love to see this woman become the next PM.
I had someone actually tsk when I referred to "Oriental rugs". "We don't use that word anymore". I laughed uproariously - "Really? What do you call them, then?" Reeeeeeeee.
I believe somebody posted something much like the above, all serious-like, on twitter... and got quite a few positive responses before somebody pointed out it was a troll.
It's all relative isn't it? I take umbrage being lumped in as "european" culturally and racially speaking, as if I have anything to do with say albanians or rom, yet as a geographic descriptor it is of course correct.
As I told many a colleague over the years:
"Can you spot a dane from a swede from a finn? I can. So stop whining about me not being able (or bothering to learn how to) tell korans from japanese from chinese - to me they look alike."
We're all a little different, and that's just fine by me.
Si! Estás una Guera! (In other words you fit the criteria.) I am tall and blonde…when I was living in Mexico in a small coastal village in Oaxaca they referred to me as La Guerita Grandota!
Not really…only a light skin might qualify but generally it is referring to a light skin, light eyed, light hair person. More European than indigenous Indio looking.
I believe Latinx is actually quite sinister. It is meant to destroy recognition of the sex differences that make men and women unique. It is similar to the transexual agenda. The male and female sexes are biological fact. Denying / lying about these differences is destructive to society.
I don't think it is a misunderstanding at all. I think it is intentional and destructive. Language and definitions are the beginning, but never the end. And yes, if they are successful with Latinx, they will likely go after German and French at some point.
You may be correct as the term only gains traction with English speakers. I have yet to meet a Spanish only speaker (i live between guatemala and mexico) who has even heard of the term. It really only matters to the political elite who hope to continue their divisions.
Oh but they're trying to push gender-neutral language in some niche woke corners of the hispanosphere.
They want to replace the masculine "o" ending with an "e" for inclusiveness.
So you'd say "hola todes!" (Hello everyone) Instead of "hola todos!"
It's not catching on, of course, but not because they aren't trying. I have a friend who works for a subtitling company and various major streaming platforms are dictating that all their shows get translated into foreign languages in "inclusive" ways. They're writing it into the contracts...
My friend and her team of translators have to attend monthly workshops on how to adapt DEI principles into their work. Dumb liberal arts grads working from home in California are telling European translators with decades of professional experience that they need to "reform" their languages.
No, "la presidenta" is not grammatically incorrect. It is just the feminine version of "el presidente" and has been in use for a long time (though it is also grammatically correct to say "la presidente").
When it's singular, Spanish is not like English. In English, "chairman" could be used to describe a woman. In Spanish, you cannot use a masculine noun and pronoun to refer to a singular woman.
Same as we say "la jefa" if it's a female boss instead of "el jefe".
The ending "-es" is what's unnatural and incorrect. The wokesters have invented it as a "gender-neutral" way of referring in the plural to a group that is mixed sex.
They are trying to mutilate the German language badly. It is not catching on, though, 70% of Germans are opposed to gender neutral German. I cancel any subscription as soon as they start to use gendered German.
Are they also trying to eliminate the use of pregnant women and mother as well? The push in english is to refer to people with the capacity to become pregnant and birthing parent.
Yeah, the most radical gender dimwits are trying to get us to say parent1 and parent 2 for mother and father and a pregnant woman is a "birthing person" or "child bearing person". But that ain't gonna fly with Germans, no way. We will soon have a massive energy crisis (no nat gas any more), which I am actually looking forward to. I think it may either cure some of the woke BS or it will destroy us, we shall see. We have oil heating and the tank is full. We also have a lovely cottage in Switzerland, just 100 miles away deep in the alps, in case this energy issue really becomes serious.
No joke, I have a friend who works for a subtitling company and this is more or less what a certain American streaming company has told her team of European translators. They want them to literally change language usage and grammatical norms so it aligns with the so-called "inclusive" agenda.
This reminds me of an incident in my former uber-woke job (which I later got run out of for objecting to woke speech censorship). One of the Wokesters decreed in response to a suggestion that we celebrate Cinco de Mayo that we were "too white" for that, and it would be offensive to Mexicans. Apparently she didn't realize that Cinco de Mayo is a minor patriotic holiday that almost no one in Mexico celebrates, and is a much bigger deal in Gringolandia than Mexico. I took an informal poll of all my Mexican friends, and not one of them was offended by non-Mexicans celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
I'm just an old cis-gendered white male, set in my errant ways and unable to learn. Perhaps the benevolent progressives will be along soon to provide some........education, or maybe even a solution that's a little more final.
For Halloween of 2019 a hapa friend of ours dressed up in lederhosen and posted jovial photos on social media. I asked if that counted as cultural appropriation, since a mutual friend posts a helpful list of “just don’t” costumes every year. I could not for the life of me figure out what was different. I was stonewalled.
I wonder, too, why the trans phenomenon isn’t considered appropriation. Maybe if you’re mentally ill appropriation doesn’t count? (I’m just spit-balling...)
Very not safe for life, but Zinnia Jones is a great dive. This muppet actually gets quoted in news sources as a 'transactivist' and taken seirously. No cultural appropriation going on here.
Not to be the Grammar Nazi I clearly am, you forgot to capitalize the “w” in “White”. Because, somehow, colors became proper nouns. Even for White people. (I didn’t get a vote on this...)
I've been living with a Latina woman for 25 years and when I first heard "LatinX" I realized immediately what it is. It's basically "wokespeak" for "Your language and culture are WRONG". It highlights the truth, that wokesters are actually closet racists.
You know, when Comrade Brandon got "elected" I thought the most entertaining presidency in my lifetime had come to an end.
I was wrong.
This clown crew has taken the stupid far beyond 11. It is like they bred the Monty Python crew with the cast of Idiocracy.
JFC.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
~ H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
All of the Latinos crossing the border illegally are doing it so their kids will have the chance to go to a drag queen story hour at a failing public school. Prediction - 15 years from now 30% of the republican party is Latino, and you can bet they're building a wall.
Thank you for calling out these ignorant over-educated white-knighting racists whose endless virtue signaling causes nothing but division and trouble for good folks of all races and nationalities who, truth be told, want no part of their lies and psychological projections.
If the woke call Latinos Latinx, what do they call the Chinese?
Master, what else?
This comment deserves all the sauce.
*pours imported Chinese sauce*
TeH IrOnY!
*he wrote on a chinese-made computer*
Great response but eerily accurate
Kaboom, right there.
Umm... Chinx?
He got ya! He got ya!
Lol 😆 🤣 😂 😹
😂
Sometimes you need to let sleeping PekIngese lie.
Beijingese, please.
Heh, nice try... but "Chinese." It's already gender neutral.
Whoa - I almost... but...
You... you... you...
bad kitty, no mouse.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 It took me a minute, but I finally got the X in the right place.
😅 😂 🤣
Well played!
What do you call a transgender gay?
GenX
A regretful detransitioner ... when they realize they could have accepted and affirmed their own gayness all along, instead of mutilating themselves to become a straight seeming person of the opposite sex. And this rides in on LGB rights and "affirmation"? So wrong ... https://nypost.com/2022/07/11/trans-woman-returns-to-life-as-man-and-hits-out-at-the-activist-doctor-who-turned-his-life-upside-down/
Queer Theory, as opposed to the LGB rights movement defines itself as an identity without an essence. As soon as you know who you are (straight, bi or gay), you've become part of the system. They don't want that; they always want your identity to be in flux so you're always at the margin of society. That's who these neo-marxists use to try and achieve their goal of overthrowing the "system".
Unfortunately true. It was always and ever a conceit. As someone who has worked to respect, protect, and support marginalized groups so they could enjoy full rights and citizenships, NOW I have to fight against these dang wokesters who want to be permanently marginalized and defined as "undefined" so they can be cool and judge the hell out of everyone else. It is exasperating, but as El Gato says, their time is nigh and they will not only get obliterated in November elections but become a running joke for the rest of near-term history. Good riddance. How can you fight against real racism when you have these idiots calling everyone racist, sexist, or "transphobic" (not even a coherent word or concept)except, of course themselves.
OMG
Trysexual.
Good as well!
🤣
My little theory is - I have secretly thought this for a while, Transgenderism and now transhumanism as well! Oh cool, now have the latest artificial intelligence implants. (Their brains will be then completely hacked). Off with the old and on with the new. Sterilisation, messed hormones and conformity.
No more traditional family. No more reading, writing, comprehension and arithmetic in school. Gender studies climate catastrophe etc instead. Many of these people, in my opinion, are pawns of the WEF and WHO. They have uniform accents and fashion. This is most uncool of me to think this. I realise that.
Possom, you are very cool in my book, because you are spot on.
Good news of the day - Kemi Badenoch for the win!!! YES!!! Oh please God. I have family in the U.K., I would really love to see this woman become the next PM.
I love you.
Winner, winner, chiXen dinner.
Chinoise, which I use frequently, or Chintz, which livens a room quite admirably!
No x's. Bad juju.
I had someone actually tsk when I referred to "Oriental rugs". "We don't use that word anymore". I laughed uproariously - "Really? What do you call them, then?" Reeeeeeeee.
Yellow- per Hunter Biden.
He doesn't like yellows for dating, but he does like the yellows from the red CCP when they fund his crack habit.
I believe somebody posted something much like the above, all serious-like, on twitter... and got quite a few positive responses before somebody pointed out it was a troll.
Asian.
Asiatix
Ha you bested me.
Like the people of India?
Don't they lump the peoples of that whole vast continent together? He asked what *they'd* call him, right?
Asian always meant someone who was mongoloid to me but in the UK ‘Asian’ seems to mean afghanis and Pakistanis.
It's all relative isn't it? I take umbrage being lumped in as "european" culturally and racially speaking, as if I have anything to do with say albanians or rom, yet as a geographic descriptor it is of course correct.
As I told many a colleague over the years:
"Can you spot a dane from a swede from a finn? I can. So stop whining about me not being able (or bothering to learn how to) tell korans from japanese from chinese - to me they look alike."
We're all a little different, and that's just fine by me.
You can tell Finns apart from Danes and Swedes? Wow.
I can't tell apart most northern Europeans, it is all one gradient/blur. We have surely mixed quite well.
Indian Inx?
Holy crap, I choked on a cashew. 😝
On point! Man, I’m old enough to remember 😩
LOL!!!!!
OMG, Wish I'd thought of this...
As a Gringx living in Mexico, I am offended.
Isn't there a book about a grinx stealing Christmas?
Güero is a better word to use. Not so negative
Ok, now you're making me wish I knew some Spanish. --- SpanX. <--- The ladies (Deal with it!) will get that joke.
NO! Not Spanx! PLEASE NOT THE SPANX! AAAAAHHHHHH!
Dreadful thought, I agree.
😂😂
I did! Thanks for the giggle
😁
Güerx.
😉😂
But if this Gringx living in Mexico is not light skinned and fair haired she wouldn’t necessarily qualify for being a Guera.
As long as she is guapx.
Im blonde & fair-skinned & my AZ high school Spanish teacher always called me güera 🙃
Si! Estás una Guera! (In other words you fit the criteria.) I am tall and blonde…when I was living in Mexico in a small coastal village in Oaxaca they referred to me as La Guerita Grandota!
☺️
Dark hair, dark eyes and I've been told I could pass. What should I go by?
Go by ‘Bandito or Bandita! 😉
Banditx!! Have you learned nothing?! 😂😂
Not really…only a light skin might qualify but generally it is referring to a light skin, light eyed, light hair person. More European than indigenous Indio looking.
La Zora!!
Like female Zoro? 😉😊😋
Minx
I like that, 'cause I know what that means.
Yes, I worked at a school where I was the only anglo/white/blond. That was my name also. I wasn't offended!
If I ever write my autobiography it'll be called "Haole Girl". That's what I was for the first ten years of school.
But this can be used on Mexican people themselves who are fair-skinned and light-haired.
Gringo is specifically Americans.
Mexico??? You mean Mexicx!
Hah! Put it in your breakfast reefer and smoke it!!
😂😂😂
I believe Latinx is actually quite sinister. It is meant to destroy recognition of the sex differences that make men and women unique. It is similar to the transexual agenda. The male and female sexes are biological fact. Denying / lying about these differences is destructive to society.
CA tried this on my 8yo. We no longer live in that state
Planning my move as well.
🙌🏼🙏🏻♥️
It simply shows a complete misunderstanding of the Spanish language. Latino refers to a group of men and women or just a group of men.
Latina refers to women only. Latino by default includes everyone so why would you need to create a pretend word to do exactly the same thing.
I wonder what they would do with German that has three genders and uses the neutral gender for girls but feminine for women.
I don't think it is a misunderstanding at all. I think it is intentional and destructive. Language and definitions are the beginning, but never the end. And yes, if they are successful with Latinx, they will likely go after German and French at some point.
You may be correct as the term only gains traction with English speakers. I have yet to meet a Spanish only speaker (i live between guatemala and mexico) who has even heard of the term. It really only matters to the political elite who hope to continue their divisions.
Oh but they're trying to push gender-neutral language in some niche woke corners of the hispanosphere.
They want to replace the masculine "o" ending with an "e" for inclusiveness.
So you'd say "hola todes!" (Hello everyone) Instead of "hola todos!"
It's not catching on, of course, but not because they aren't trying. I have a friend who works for a subtitling company and various major streaming platforms are dictating that all their shows get translated into foreign languages in "inclusive" ways. They're writing it into the contracts...
My friend and her team of translators have to attend monthly workshops on how to adapt DEI principles into their work. Dumb liberal arts grads working from home in California are telling European translators with decades of professional experience that they need to "reform" their languages.
They have done the same with words like presidente, by using la presidenta, which is grammatically incorrect
I keep waiting for the word woman to be changed because it has the letters man in it.
No, "la presidenta" is not grammatically incorrect. It is just the feminine version of "el presidente" and has been in use for a long time (though it is also grammatically correct to say "la presidente").
When it's singular, Spanish is not like English. In English, "chairman" could be used to describe a woman. In Spanish, you cannot use a masculine noun and pronoun to refer to a singular woman.
Same as we say "la jefa" if it's a female boss instead of "el jefe".
The ending "-es" is what's unnatural and incorrect. The wokesters have invented it as a "gender-neutral" way of referring in the plural to a group that is mixed sex.
Would that just make it, "Wo?" Pronounced, "Whoa." 😉
They are trying to mutilate the German language badly. It is not catching on, though, 70% of Germans are opposed to gender neutral German. I cancel any subscription as soon as they start to use gendered German.
Are they also trying to eliminate the use of pregnant women and mother as well? The push in english is to refer to people with the capacity to become pregnant and birthing parent.
https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1546893479120457729?s=20&t=4NigyPWhDMRmTJhIxkU9EA
I cannot help but think that this is going to end very badly for mankind. The push to accept a false sense of reality can never be good.
Yeah, the most radical gender dimwits are trying to get us to say parent1 and parent 2 for mother and father and a pregnant woman is a "birthing person" or "child bearing person". But that ain't gonna fly with Germans, no way. We will soon have a massive energy crisis (no nat gas any more), which I am actually looking forward to. I think it may either cure some of the woke BS or it will destroy us, we shall see. We have oil heating and the tank is full. We also have a lovely cottage in Switzerland, just 100 miles away deep in the alps, in case this energy issue really becomes serious.
Good for you to have the Swiss option. I'm a resident in Mexico so I no longer have to put up with the lunacy in the USA.
or french which gives everything one of two genders?
I see here that you’re woke-phobic.
I am! Thank you for noticing!
I just call it an aversion to lies and liars.
Plain, simple, and appropriate
Try woke-a-phobic or woke-o-phobe. It rolls off the tongue easier.
I like those, better. It rolls in with other speech items in that genre. Germ-o-phobic/phobe.
It's wokester code for "your language is wrong and needs to be fixed"
🙌
No joke, I have a friend who works for a subtitling company and this is more or less what a certain American streaming company has told her team of European translators. They want them to literally change language usage and grammatical norms so it aligns with the so-called "inclusive" agenda.
Yep--part of the transhumanist push.
This reminds me of an incident in my former uber-woke job (which I later got run out of for objecting to woke speech censorship). One of the Wokesters decreed in response to a suggestion that we celebrate Cinco de Mayo that we were "too white" for that, and it would be offensive to Mexicans. Apparently she didn't realize that Cinco de Mayo is a minor patriotic holiday that almost no one in Mexico celebrates, and is a much bigger deal in Gringolandia than Mexico. I took an informal poll of all my Mexican friends, and not one of them was offended by non-Mexicans celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
In America, anything is a good reason to get piss-faced drunk. Nobody who's Irish cares that the Americans have bastardized St. Patrick's Day, either.
They celebrate Oktober Fest, too. Liquor is liquor in the good 'ole USA!
Guilty as charged. Almost got myself killed one time thanks to too much Oktoberfest shenanigans.
"Oktoberfest shenanigans"
Doubling down on the cultural appropriation, I see.
I'm just an old cis-gendered white male, set in my errant ways and unable to learn. Perhaps the benevolent progressives will be along soon to provide some........education, or maybe even a solution that's a little more final.
Cake or death?
Cheers 🍻 I can relate!
I love your kitty!
Thank you 😊 he’s an EXTRA naughty polydactyl who drives me kinda crazy...Can’t imagine my life without him😻
Liquor was invented in a different country so it's cultural appropriation to drink booze.
The Irish will drink to that.
At least I can claim some german ancestry. It's not entirely hedonic!
You hit the nail on the head, my friend.
Personally, I am quite proud of being ombibulous.
I think Cinco de Mayo as a “thing” was created by Corona beer to sell…beer
Correct.
Cinco de Mayo is not even a holiday in Mexico.
It is, but a very minor one mostly celebrated in Puebla, where the battle it commemorates was fought.
Agreed. I was referring to it not being a national holiday.
For Halloween of 2019 a hapa friend of ours dressed up in lederhosen and posted jovial photos on social media. I asked if that counted as cultural appropriation, since a mutual friend posts a helpful list of “just don’t” costumes every year. I could not for the life of me figure out what was different. I was stonewalled.
I wonder, too, why the trans phenomenon isn’t considered appropriation. Maybe if you’re mentally ill appropriation doesn’t count? (I’m just spit-balling...)
Recynd, Because man! If you feel like a woman, by golly you ARE! No appropriation to see here
Very not safe for life, but Zinnia Jones is a great dive. This muppet actually gets quoted in news sources as a 'transactivist' and taken seirously. No cultural appropriation going on here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJL4UGSbeFg
https://youtu.be/uU7nzwbJ-Hk
These people are insane.
I guess because we all started out with female chromosomes? But then, all humans came from Africa.
It’s never cultural appropriation if the culture being appropriated is white
Not to be the Grammar Nazi I clearly am, you forgot to capitalize the “w” in “White”. Because, somehow, colors became proper nouns. Even for White people. (I didn’t get a vote on this...)
Haha I’m sure the wokesters would like to marginalize further w/ lower case. Only minorities get upper
I thought the w in white was specifically to be written in lower case? I feel like I read about this somewhere in the past.
Thats what I mean, Anastasia 🤣
The list includes wearing a sombrero of course...
Which Mexicans also don't care about.
your woke co-workers were offended on their behalf
100%
I've been living with a Latina woman for 25 years and when I first heard "LatinX" I realized immediately what it is. It's basically "wokespeak" for "Your language and culture are WRONG". It highlights the truth, that wokesters are actually closet racists.
They're not in any closet. If you know them well, it's all out in the open.
"alienating latinos and latinas to mollify becky from vassar”
I just laughed so hard I spit out my coffee.
This was the master stroke of a masterful essay!
I thought it might say Jill from Villanova 🤨
For what it's worth, I have a Latina Ex.
Hilarious! Same here. I'm gonna text her that right now and see how it lands :)
Latino approval of Biden job performance: 24%, the lowest of any ethnic group.
Remember "Demographics are destiny?"
Turns out you can't just call the other side racist and expect all the minorities to vote for you! They think for themselves!
So much for Replacement Theory.
That was always just a conspiracy theory, anyway!
*wink wink* :)
Latinx approval of him is way higher!
Hah, yes, he likely gets 100% of the "latinx" voters. Unfortunately for Biden, only around 3% of hispanics use the term latinx.
You know, when Comrade Brandon got "elected" I thought the most entertaining presidency in my lifetime had come to an end.
I was wrong.
This clown crew has taken the stupid far beyond 11. It is like they bred the Monty Python crew with the cast of Idiocracy.
JFC.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
~ H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
All of the Latinos crossing the border illegally are doing it so their kids will have the chance to go to a drag queen story hour at a failing public school. Prediction - 15 years from now 30% of the republican party is Latino, and you can bet they're building a wall.
Zo gut!
Don’t forget the PolaX. Those delcious pierogis mmm 😋 😋
😆😆
Lol
Eh, language is diverse - like tacos!
Tac*x*
You transphobe.
Wouldn't that just be "tax?"
Thank you for calling out these ignorant over-educated white-knighting racists whose endless virtue signaling causes nothing but division and trouble for good folks of all races and nationalities who, truth be told, want no part of their lies and psychological projections.
All signaling and no virtue.
👍🏽 yup…
Whoever came up with the latinx horseshit is one big pendejx.
latinx... why? we already had a word for them: Latin. If male, then Latino. If female, then Latina. Both together, Latin.
I'm sick of these people and their wokedom.
And we also had "Hispanic," if we didn't want to specify gender.