exclusive language

speech and writing that excludes, intentionally or unintentionally, certain groups of people and their experiences makes them invisible to others and less valuable in their own and others' eyes. They become symbolically annihilated. For years, most of the advertising, writing, teaching, and speaking in our culture has been about, and directed toward, white, middle-class, Christian, heterosexual, able-bodied men. There is nothing wrong with this category of people; they have in fact contributed enormously to society. The problem is that there are many other members of society outside this category whose existence has been ignored by exclusive language.