"Please stop trying to impose weird western gender ideology onto people who never wanted it or asked for it in the first place".
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Filipinos Blast Comic-Con for Use of Woke Term ‘Filipinx’
The Filipinx Voices in Pop Culture was a fun and educational all Filipinx panel discussing Filipinx influences behind your favorite media," Comic-Con tweeted on Thursday, using the alternative gender-neutral ethnic term preferred by some gender identity activists to refer to people from the Philippines. Comic-Con's use of the term drew immediate backlash from users, including Filipinos.
Linguist Nanette Caspillo told Vice that the term "Filipinx" is "unnatural" because "the suffix ‘-x’ does not exist in the Philippine linguistic system." While advocates for the term contend that it is more inclusive of people who reject the traditional gender binary, Filipino social media users pointed out that the word "Filipino" is already gender-neutral.
Comic con’s leaders were quick to reject any criticism. “Who do these little brown midgets think they are?”, asked Lavender Furfur, pronouns whozeagoodboy/fetch/don’tdoitthere,damnyou. “We’re simply trying to raise them to a higher level of civilization, just as we did for their sub-species in Latinix Amerigovia, yet are they grateful? No, they’re spiteful, and they’re hateful.” Ms/Mr/Whatzzit then placed ze’s hand on its chest and burst into verse:
Take up the White man's burden --
Send forth the best ye breed --
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild --
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man's burden --
The savage wars of peace --
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hope to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden --
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper --
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead!
Take up the White man's burden --
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard --
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light: --
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
"Our loved Egyptian night?"
Take up the White Man's burden --
Ye dare not stoop to less --
Nor call too loud on freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.
And after ze’s recital, a musical interlude:
