Filipino is the gender neutral way :) I’m a half filipino raised in america though so take it with a grain of salt, but I honestly have never seen anyone use filipinx before
Ok ill use that, its just last time i used that someone had to point out that technically the male form… i guess it still is like in spanish where multiple people with undetermined gender are adressed with the male plural right?
Nah, the most popular language in the Philippines is tagalog and that is already a language that’s gender neutral. The word ‘Filipino’ is a colonial artifact—they were named after some guy named Philip. In that way, it is technically gendered considering the spanish influence, but no one I know considers it gendered in any way unless you put it like ‘pinoys or pinays’ etc. I know filipina or pilipina or pinay is used still, but I honestly haven’t heard it much except in america, but all filipino women I know, if you just asked ‘are you filipino?’ they would say yes.
Filipino is the gender neutral way :) I’m a half filipino raised in america though so take it with a grain of salt, but I honestly have never seen anyone use filipinx before
Ok ill use that, its just last time i used that someone had to point out that technically the male form… i guess it still is like in spanish where multiple people with undetermined gender are adressed with the male plural right?
Nah, the most popular language in the Philippines is tagalog and that is already a language that’s gender neutral. The word ‘Filipino’ is a colonial artifact—they were named after some guy named Philip. In that way, it is technically gendered considering the spanish influence, but no one I know considers it gendered in any way unless you put it like ‘pinoys or pinays’ etc. I know filipina or pilipina or pinay is used still, but I honestly haven’t heard it much except in america, but all filipino women I know, if you just asked ‘are you filipino?’ they would say yes.