She got rid of the huge veneers, stop cosplaying grandma like Dolly Parton told her, removed her father's last name, married a rock twink and remembered who tf she was, is, and always will be.
I don't think Filipinos saying "Filipino is already gender-neutral" is coming from taking the masculine form as the default. I mean, it definitely did do that because Spanish lol. But it's moreso a reflection of reclamation. It's OUR word now, OUR language is gender neutral—