>>149394188I get it. I'm originally from Italy but live in the US now. We have a gendered language, too (obviously, since Spanish is literally descended of Italian). I've joked that matita (pencil) might identify as a male noun now so we should be calling it matitx until the pencil tells us its gender.
But this whole silliness raises other questions, too: what gender do the adjectives take? If we're talking about a crazy Puerto Rican of indeterminate gender, do we say loco or loca puertoriqueñx? Locx puertoriqueñx?
You can tell that this Latinx bullshit was dreamt up by some white anglo because a native speaker of a gendered language would realize that it's dumb from the start when all the rules of the adjectives, the nouns and even the goddamn articles (el puertoriqueñx locx or la? Lx?) come into play.
It's fucking dumb and Amy said as much.