The old saying has it that “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” This is, of course, censorious nonsense meant to socialize children to be dully agreeable and incapable of expressing their critical thoughts. But at least it doesn’t ask people to edit any of their expressions, merely to not express themselves at all. The same can’t be said for Catalyst, a company that offers a sort of political autocorrect service in order to help end “biases that are stopping women from achieving equality at work.”

A lofty and noble goal. How does Catalyst advance it? The main product is the #BiasCorrect software extension in the already socially nightmarish workplace chat program Slack. The program highlights sentences like “Could she be more emotional?” and pops up with a replacement, as though it were a grammar error in Microsoft Word, suggesting some phrasing that isn’t a sexist trope, in this case that she is merely “passionate.” (I cannot imagine saying either of these two things about a coworker, but OK.)