genderspeak

Example Sentences

• "'Man' when used of the human race is the primary use, which the Shorter Oxford Dictionary still upholds, and so what we are seeing is not a change of inclusive language so much as a kind of 'genderspeak'."
• "The result is a slightly odd hybrid of '90s genderspeak and the cornball phrasing in Preston Sturges movies. One of my favorite passages, on sex in sobriety, substitutes human beings for man and now reads: […]"
• "I've also strayed from the politically correct in many ways, not the least of which is genderspeak. I use he, him, his and so on throughout the book (unless I am writing about a woman), […]"
• "Eliminate genderspeak from job titles and terminology. Replace salesman and mailman with sales representative and mail carrier."
• "While she [Olenna Tyrell] directly ridicules authority figures like Varys and Tyrion, and stands up for her goals, she also uses pacifying genderspeak as Daenerys does. She comforts a terrified Sansa by telling her they're just a group of women chatting."
• "If 1948 was a watershed year for the visibility of homosexuality in American culture, 1949 can be read as the beginning of the backlash against soft masculinity and the "doughfaces" in government. In the genderspeak of the Cold War, the biggest doughface of them all was Alger Hiss."