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[–] [email protected] 179 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

This happens not really because of the gender of the person but because in Spanish things have genders: The moon is a she, the sun is a he, etc. and ChatGPT confuses that and the fact that in this context that distinction makes no sense.

Usually Spanish speaking non-binary people use also "no-binarie", something that doesn't exist in the language, for now at least, but wipes out the gender.

I'm not an expert, thought, just a native Spanish speaker.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the dick = la pinga, which is female

the pussy = el bollo, which is male

until next time, friends! πŸ‘‹

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In Colombia it’s verga for dick and chimba for pussy. Both are feminine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is just great! Tienes nombres mil el miembro viril has to be a new saying that gets used in regular speech

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same in Mexico though in El Salvador it's referred to beating someone up if spoken as a verb. I got really confused when a Salvadorean guy was telling me he fucked another guy only to find out it was actually in the context of a fight.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago

Exactly! I would add that you can still use "no binario" or "no binaria" in a (somewhat) respectful manner. For instance, you can say "persona no binaria" (non binary person), "comunidad no binaria" (non binary community), because both nouns are feminine, you can use the feminine alteration of "no binario". For masculine I would go with "su gΓ©nero es no binario" (its gender in non binary), since gender is masculine and "su" doesn't imply any gender at all.

Again, not an expert just another fellow native Spanish speaker with a bit of a geekiness about languages.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The solution is pretty simple:

Instead just saying "soy no binario/no binaria" people have to say "soy una persona no binaria"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or soy un humano no binario. 😝

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many Latinos refuse to use "e" when the "o" is already neutral. Better improve your Spanish grammar than changing it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the e thing sounds fucking stupid, however if that makes people happy, so be it, language is supposed to evolve over time, the e is only annoying if you actively oppose to it (or are in a position where you're not allowed to make mistakes)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Hey, at least it's better than whatever the fuck Latinx is, so I ain't complaining.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This isn't entirely true either. The adjective "binario" has to agree with the gender of what's being talked about, either the grammatical gender of the noun or the natural gender of the person. A salient example could be the noun "piloto". Just as adjectives inflect for gender so do pronouns, so you can say "el piloto" or "la piloto" depending on the natural gender of the person, and inflect adjectives accordingly. Grammatical gender and natural gender are both distict concepts that impact gender inflection in spanish.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That was insightful. Thank you