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Political correctness

Avoid feminised nouns

Avoid something-man nouns

Avoid gender assumptive language

Gender neutral pronouns

Using gendered pronouns

Using gender neutral pronouns

Gender neutral names of people

Using he she

Racism homophobia religion sexism

Political correctness gone too far

Avoid gender assumptive language

Some language assumes something about the gender of certain people based on what they do, or places more importance on one sex than the other. This comes up often on invites:

This implies that you are the first person invited and that you’re welcome to bring your ‘possession’, i.e., your wife. You’re better off using a more gender neutral invite and using ‘spouse’ or ‘partner’ instead of ‘wife’:

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