#gender-coded language

Alex Kapitan, an editor and consultant who blogs as Radical Copyeditor, says that the “way we think about people dictates the way we treat people”. Kapitan refers to the “mutually reinforcing cycle” of gender-coded language. “When we use particular language for a particular group of people, and that language is different than the way that we talk about other groups of people, that reinforces the sorts of biases that are baked into that language.”