JoeMarx 193M to Philippines [ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈᜐ᜔] • 4 months agoReject Modernity, Embrace Traditionimagemessage-square12arrow-up151arrow-down10cross-posted to: lgbtshitposting
arrow-up151arrow-down1imageReject Modernity, Embrace TraditionJoeMarx 193M to Philippines [ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈᜐ᜔] • 4 months agomessage-square12cross-posted to: lgbtshitposting
minus-square@Munrocklink8•4 months agoOur Filipino ancestors had four genders. You’d describe them in modern parlance as masculine male, masculine female, feminine male, feminine female. IDK if ‘Bakla’ has been reclaimed or not, but before it was turned into a derogatory term, it was the name of a gender (describing a feminine male).
minus-square@Munrocklink2•edit-24 months agoWere separate genders (as in, it was unanimously accepted across the culture). ‘Tomboy’ still gets used in Tagalog I think?
Our Filipino ancestors had four genders. You’d describe them in modern parlance as masculine male, masculine female, feminine male, feminine female.
IDK if ‘Bakla’ has been reclaimed or not, but before it was turned into a derogatory term, it was the name of a gender (describing a feminine male).
So Femboy and Tomboy are both separate genders?
Were separate genders (as in, it was unanimously accepted across the culture). ‘Tomboy’ still gets used in Tagalog I think?