This is unfair. "Filipina" has been used since the Spanish occupation, as part of a movement to assert women& #39;s rights. Pinoy and Pinay have been used by Filipinos in America to identify themselves. before it was assimilated and used here in the Philippines.

Research is key. https://twitter.com/gfirga/status/1301822151910064128">https://twitter.com/gfirga/st...

Pls do your research before speaking on Filipino identity & experience, esp when there is a risk of speaking over Filipinos in diaspora. The debate over Filipinx has been going on for years; discussions on Filipino-ness for longer. Read up, and read well. https://www.cnn.ph/life/culture/2020/6/29/filipinx-gender-neutral.html">https://www.cnn.ph/life/cult...

Words can be gender-neutral, but politics surrounding it will never be (gender-) neutral, because it is used in a patriarchal context that feeds on colonialism & imperialism. Words evolve. Experiences vary. We respond & resist. Leave room for interrogation, instead of imposition.

(also, the irony of dismissing filipinx as a word while using filo in the same breath. i& #39;m --)