As inclusive writing exerts its grip ever more violently on people's minds, including those of pedagogues who are no longer shy about imposing it on schools, it's time to determine what ailment it's a symptom of, so that we can get rid of it.

On Wednesday May 22, Jonas Follonier, editor-in-chief of this magazine, shared on social networks a photo of the men's toilet door at the Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines of the Université de Neuchâtel. On the door was a small poster masking the male logo and stating that «the toilets had been made gender-free because the male-female sigils displayed on the toilets oppress a section of the university population». The action was instigated by the «UniNE collective for the women's* and feminist strike», which is «calling for a boycott of these stereotyped, medieval codes».