Google reports soaring attrition among Black women
I&#x27;m Italian and I speak Spanish and Portuguese relatively fluently.<p>Using the term &quot;Latinx&quot; in my opinion is a form of cultural appropriation, because it imposes a way of using grammatical gender that is typical of the English language (think e.g. about the &quot;singular they&quot;) upon neo-latin languages where the perception of grammatical gender is very different. In neo-latin languages such as Italian or Spanish, grammatical gender doesn&#x27;t have the same weight that it has in English, e.g. when I think about &quot;scrivania&quot; or &quot;armadio&quot; (those are the Italian words for &quot;desk&quot; and &quot;closet&quot;, the former is feminine and the latter is masculine) I don&#x27;t imagine in my mind that the desk has feminine features, or that the closet is somehow manly. This is just not how those languages work.<p>Edit: when I speak English I&#x27;m absolutely in favour of things like singular they. I&#x27;m just saying that this doesn&#x27;t work as well in other languages.