Just a shiny male toy…

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I’m Latino, latine seems more plausible based on how I grew up. I just hate how it’s a single letter off from latrine.

    Do we jump the rules for something really new to our society? Maybe. I personally think a lot of this is rooted in people’s limited understanding of how postfixes work in Spanish, American education for example explains that anything ending with a = feminine, o = masculine, but that ignores context and etymology which I won’t go into here.

    I’d equate it to our initial minor discomfort with referring to humanity as ‘mankind’, anyone with more than trivial education understands the word to be non-gendered.