I can't speak to using "Latinx" or land acknowledgements, but myself and other non-cishet people I know appreciate the normalization of adding pronouns to names/bios by all kinds of people because it helps us feel a lot less othered. I hate being the only one in a Zoom call with my pronouns in my name.
That being said, I know cishet people more often than not do it to signal, but intentions aside, I think it's helpful and I only hope it becomes more common. I'd say about a quarter of my organization does it on Zoom, with almost all of us doing it on Mattermost. It's nice.
I understand the utility of communicating what pronouns to use, but what I don't understand is why people list multiple forms instead of just one. If you say "they", the "them" and "their" are implied already etc.
Re:“Latinx” is lexical imperialism
by NylaTheWolf on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:22AM
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I guess because it rolls off the tongue better?
Re:“Latinx” is lexical imperialism
by inter_netuser on Monday January 10, 2022 @03:41PM
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whats the percentage of non-cishet in your organization?
~5% is my best guess.
Re:“Latinx” is lexical imperialism
by 908B64B197 on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:49PM
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There's a hidden benefit as well: ambiguous names. Like Taylor for instance.
Re:“Latinx” is lexical imperialism
by ASalazarMX on Monday January 10, 2022 @03:16PM
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If they really want to signal their virtue, they should call themselves AmericXns first before mangling other nationalities.
> And yes, I think this extends to cishet people using putting gender pronouns in their name field on Zoom, etc.
Do you have a functional cisdar/gaydar? Mine seems to be broken.
Less flippantly: you don't necessarily know, a priori, what someone's pronouns are just from their name and/or profile on some web service. That's why listing pronouns is, at the absolute minimum, socially useful.
I think it boils down to if its important to you, list them. If its not, leave them off. I’ll never list mine because I cannot think of a time in my life when some one has gotten my pronouns wrong, and even if they did, it would not offend me in the slightest. If anything I would just assume the person misspoke, or if it continued, that they are an idiot or intentionally being an ass.
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I don't even know what a 'cishet' is, and I have no desire to learn.
Re:“Latinx” is lexical imperialism
by beepbooptheory on Monday January 10, 2022 @03:23PM
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Could you explain what you mean here?
‘Cishet’ is an imposed label to the group it describes as ‘Latinx’ is to the group it describes.
Re:“Latinx” is lexical imperialism
by beepbooptheory on Monday January 10, 2022 @03:47PM
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nope
This is a bit like (non-native) people stating their location in their Twitter bio as "Salish lands" or "Ohlone lands" in place of Seattle or San Francisco. And yes, I think this extends to cishet people using putting gender pronouns in their name field on Zoom, etc.