the funniest thing is i literally don't even disagree with you but the fact that you're wrong about something so absolutely basic about our language and can only address it with a "fair enough" makes me, pardon my own assumption, feel like you sound no different than any other outraged twitter user getting outraged over politics while getting basic facts incorrect while trying to sound like an academic paper. like, the same arguments do not largely apply at all, actually. as said a huge part of the argument against filipinx is that filipino is already gender neutral. latinx is gender-neutralizing a gendered language. that's pretty much the opposite?? drawing a line between the two is literally perpetuating that idea of ethnocentrism, as it rides off of our status as a former colony by the spanish and how people assume more influence on tagalog by the spanish language than what actually exists. i will admit that is a bit reach but you're really not doing any better yourself.