• Politics, Machismo, and Privilege: The Inclusive Language Debate

More than 60 deputies of the 570 of the French National Assembly have presented a bill to "

prohibit inclusive writing in administrative documents

."

They belong to the party of President Emmanuel Macron, La República en Marcha (LaREM, center) and the main opposition force, Los Republicanos (LR, right).

It is the war against "all and all."

"Cultural terrorism," say the harshest. Among the signatories are the vice-presidents of both groups.

mourners: Aurore Bergé, (LaREM) and Annie Genevard (LR).

«

Inclusive writing is as illegible as it is discriminatory

.

The fight for equality between women and men is fair but the paths it takes are, at times, confusing ”, reads the explanatory statement.

The initiative comes from the centrist François Jolivet. Duplicate language should not, in fact, be used in the Public Administration according to a circular validated by the Council of State and issued by the Government of Edouard Philippe that recommended that “in administrative acts the following rules:

in regulatory texts the masculine is a form of neutral that should be used in terms applicable to both men and women

However, almost the entire left, from La Francia Insoumisa (extreme left), to the CP, Ecological Europe and, often, the Socialist Party use inclusive language.

It is used in their writings by municipalities such as that of Paris, chaired by the socialist Anne Hidalgo, or that of Lyon, with the green mayor, Grégory Doucet.

The common argument is "to give visibility to women." The right, on the other hand, has always rejected its use: "Inclusive writing is a heresy, a

diktat

that certain parties are trying to impose on us.

It's cultural terrorism

», Has declared to

Le Figaro

LR Deputy Secretary General, Pierre Henri Dumont. The tone of the signers of the motion is less combative.

They recall that the Council of State has declared null the acts written in inclusive language, which goes against the

"Universality of public service"

.

They also blame him for adding problems in school learning. The Minister of Culture, Rosalyne Bachelot, has added to this last argument: «

We already have quite a few students who struggle with spelling, writing and reading.

.

Inclusive writing is an elitist initiative, I think.

What I want is a democratic learning of reading and writing.

So I'm not in favor. ”Except in the use of epicene terms, (replace“ human rights ”with“ human rights ”, for example), the inclusive writing in French is

orthographically complicated

.

Above all, because of the midpoint or point of otherness that allows the feminine suffix to be added to a word.

A) Yes

student

(student) becomes

étudiant

;

In the plural it is worse:

professeurs

(teachers) becomes

professeur · e · s

;

and it is bundled if the word closes paragraph:

cytoyens

(citizens) is

citoyenne

.

Apparently, in inclusive French it is not intended to use the @ to cover both genders.

Nothing of

everyone

.

All and all. «Inclusive writing is

a strange technique

that one would say that it comes out of the stoned spirit of a computer code student in love with a grammar.

It is not funny or practical and it is an offense to the musicality of the language of Ronsard and Musset.

But it seems to have hypnotized our elites, "said Le Figaro newspaper in its editorial, who broke the news by opening the front page.

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