What on this earth is "Mx." 😭

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[–]nevergonnagiveyouup 22 insightful - 19 fun22 insightful - 18 fun23 insightful - 19 fun -  (1 child)

i think the letter X is their equivalent of duct tape

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Nationalist | Cocks are Compulsory 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

🤣🤣🤣

[–]ArthnoldManacatsamanOoh, flair. 18 insightful - 18 fun18 insightful - 17 fun19 insightful - 18 fun -  (6 children)

X xm sx txrxd xf hxvxng tx xdxcxtx pxxplx hxrx! 'X' xs thx wxkxst xf thx lxttxrs xn thx xlphxbxt. Xvxntxxlly wx wxll rxplxcx xll wrxttxn vxwxls xn thx Xnglxsh lxngxxgx (mxybx xthxr lxngxxgxs txx!) wxth Xs.

[–]Bootsinmyshoes30[S] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's what the trans rights activists want languages to become, they want all languages to become meaningless and useless to the point we can't have conversations anymore. This is so accurate I'm laughing and crying at the same time 🤣😭

[–]wafflegaffand a woman 12 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

X xm sx txrxd xf hxvxng tx xdxcxtx pxxplx hxrx! 'X' xs thx wxkxst xf thx lxttxrs xn thx xlphxbxt. Xvxntxxlly wx wxll rxplxcx xll wrxttxn vxwxls xn thx Xnglxsh lxngxxgx (mxybx xthxr lxngxxgxs txx!) wxth Xs.

A masterpiece. And completely legible once I flipped on my Wokespeak™ translator.

[–]mvmlego 9 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

Or, as Orwell might put it, "duckspeak". Perhaps we could compromise and call it "DuxpeakTrademarks are a Cisnormative Product of Capitalism ".

[–]fuck_reddit 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

You have truly out Newspeaked Orwell... there should be a "deconstructed" award for that...

[–]GatitoMaloMale. ¿por qué no los dos? 9 insightful - 7 fun9 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 7 fun -  (1 child)

I am shocked how legible that actually was. Didn't pull out wxkxst though.

Edit: wokest... sigh. I guess I'm not woke.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsamanOoh, flair. 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Edit: wokest... sigh. I guess I'm not woke.

Bxgxt.

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 22 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

"Mx" has been around for a while, unforunately. It's not a pronoun though, so, OP is a dumb. Also, adding random Xs to shit doesn't make it "gender neutral" & in most cases it's confusing for non-English people... and often English people too.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 20 insightful - 5 fun20 insightful - 4 fun21 insightful - 5 fun -  (5 children)

I don't get why they're so obsessed with that letter. Is it because X is one of the least used letters in the English language?

If that's the case, then they need to check their colonialist and English as a first language PRIVILEGE /s

[–]GatitoMaloMale. ¿por qué no los dos? 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

"X" is used in English commonly as a wildcard. "A playing card whose value can vary as determined by its holder."

So like instead of latina or latino, you've got latinx. 'course, that's not English but it's common among NA English speakers.

[–]fuck_reddit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ironically, the "latino/latina" problem was created by wokesters... they insisted on using "latino/latina" since it is more "culturally sensitive" compared to "latin," but then they decided that "latino" was gendered (even tho, it isn't necessarily in Spanish).

[–]HelloMomo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"X" is used in English commonly as a wildcard.

I don't think that's so much an English thing as it is borrowed from math. X is the default variable in mathematics.

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Someone once explained to me that it's because "X can be used as a variable", but I'm pretty sure that's not the origin.

I believe it originated with "neopronouns" like "xe/xir" which pretty much exist solely to be as weird and different as possible. It's confusing to read and pronounce, and doesn't look like it belongs with he/she at all, but that's the point. Also see words like "womxn" - something I've seen used by both TRAs and radical feminists - because the "man" in "woman" is apparently sexist and needs to be swapped out. TRAs use womxn because the X is supposed to be "inclusive", radfems use it because they don't want "man" in the world (but they'll also use womyn, womon, wombyn and so forth)

tl;dr yes. It's because it's one of the least used and most "weird" sounding.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Except it isn't really weird sounding at all, just has absolutely no consistency or sound of its own. It usually sounds like ks, but sometimes can be z. Ironically enough, just as in math, x in English is just a variable for a different letter or combination of letters

[–]lazy-summer-god 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

"Mx." is attention seeking.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Nationalist | Cocks are Compulsory 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Looks like "mix" but misspelled. Woke people are not good at language so this doesn’t surprise me.

[–]cure_osa_disorder 5 insightful - 6 fun5 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Wasn't that the guy who did "Baby Got Back"?

[–]fuck_reddit 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Omg "Mx." is NOT A PRONOUN!!! They don't know anything about grammar/language/linguistics yet they insist on controlling how everyone talks, even native speakers of foreign languages... Mr, Mrs., Ms., Mx., Dr., etc. are titles/honorifics... some are gendered, some aren't (Dr., Prof., Esq., etc.)... Edit: I also just remembered that I had a teacher in High School get mad at me for calling her "Miss. M_" instead of "Ms. M_" cause that used to be the cutting edge of political correctness...

[–]wafflegaffand a woman 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Stupid and funny. Constantly trying things on in the mirror.