Manuais e Guias de Redação Oficial Tocantinenses:

Por que o Gênero Masculino os Domina?

Abstract

We see that, with the new edition of the Editorial Manual of the Presidency of the Republic (MRPR), Brazil (2018), it seems possible to challenge, under the criteria of gender-inclusive language, its self-announced revised, updated and expanded edition. In this sense, a new sub-item entitled “female signatories” is revealing, because it is fallacious. What happens is the prevalence of the generic masculine and male characters in their examples and models of communication and official acts. Given the prestige that MRPR has, we can see such prevalence present in manuals and official local writing guides. This is what happens in the official writing guides of the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT, 2021) and the Federal Institute of Tocantins (IFTO, 2017) and in the official writing manuals of the Court of Auditors of the State of Tocantins (TCE, 2013) and of the Public Ministry of the State of Tocantins (MP-TO, 2017). After bringing fragments of the guides and writing manuals in question that prove that they are patriarchal, we will review the concepts of androcentrism, generic masculine, sexism and gender-inclusive language in an attempt to explain, although not justify, the reason why cis or trans women and people of different genders or non-binary people suffer linguistic exclusion in these publications.

Keywords: Presidency of the Republic Writing Manual; State of Tocantins Writing Manual; IFTO and UFT Writing Guide; Androcentrism; Linguistic Bolsonarism.