> It's crazy that this label is still being pushed.

This is a great example of how intellectually bankrupt some of the social mis-movements towards redefinition truly are.

First they come up with a term that is clearly not a term used by the native speakers of that group. Then they utilize that term in order to collectively identify them. Then they push it across media, education, and many other avenues to make it "a thing".

This term which originates in English, and doesn't truly relate to Latin* derived cultures but instead to a smaller subset of cultures from a specific geography, and is difficult to speak for a native speaker, and violates the grammar, is then hoisted upon them like a label to which they'd actually subscribe. As many of these cultures self-identify as uniquely distinct from one another, and are competitive, this type of collectivist label is all the more rude.

What Chutzpah!

My guess is an English speaker was forced to take French or Spanish in college and struggled to remember the gender for a word like “bicycle” and decided the whole notion of gendered language was silly and should be abolished.

I am much more sympathetic to that argument than the people pretending it’s to avoid offense.

Shouldn't intentionally butchering someone else's non-English language be considered offensive?