DIFFERENCES, ACCUSATIONS AND RESISTANCES TO THE USE OF GENDER NEUTRAL LANGUAGE - UPDATING IDENTITY DILEMMA

Abstract

How do we become “us”? How do we become “them”? How do some become “us” and others “them”? The objective of this text is to reflect on moralities and differences, based on a specific case of abuse on social media, closely followed by the authors, in which the notion of “identitarianism” gained particular relevance in the accusation and disqualification of a solidly produced work. Our perception is that accusations of this nature have been frequent in environments that are sometimes more and sometimes less public and are often directed against academic productions that mobilize notions such as intersectionality and social markers of difference and, more than that, embody these references and align themselves with a intellectual and political agenda for the production of justice and equity. We argue that these references themselves are good guides for understanding this scenario, in which the unnamed assumption of hegemonic identities causes the othering of those of us who have always been “Other”.