In March 2017 in France, the Hatier publishing house released a French textbook using gender-neutral writing, which aimed at eradicating sexism in language and thus in mentalities. This was not easily implemented since members of the Académie française, conservative activists from “La Manif pour Tous,” the parliamentary group Les Républicains, of which the French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe was a member, and intellectuals have spoken out publicly against this attempt at inclusiveness in the French language. In this study, we propose to assess how the arguments invoked in the controversy over gender-inclusive writing in France hinge on a reactionary, antifeminist rhetoric.