Safire on gendered language
October 26, 2022 4:07 AM

Hofstadter in his amazing A Person Paper on Purity in Language notes that he did not simply take a Safire column and substitute race for gender to write his satire, but that he was using Safire as his principle inspiration. Without needing to purchase anything Safire wrote or otherwise indicate support for him, can anyone point me to a column or two of his defending gendered language?

Hofstadter's original piece, for those who are curious.
posted by Hactar to Writing & Language (2 answers total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
The NYT magazine has an entire archive of Safire's columns to peruse. You can search for terms you want (the archive goes back a long way) - here's a piece on "Women vs Female" from 2007, for example, or "Goodbye Sex, Hello Gender" from 1984.
posted by underclocked at 4:26 AM on October 26, 2022


And Hypersexism And The Feds (1985).
posted by Mr.Know-it-some at 8:40 AM on October 26, 2022


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