diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst
index b42f33ccc0d351d..2c84551e4eae0ce 100644
--- a/Doc/library/typing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/typing.rst
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ A user-defined class can be defined as a generic class.
 single type parameter ``T`` . This also makes ``T`` valid as a type within the
 class body.
 
-The :class:`Generic` base class uses a metaclass that defines
-:meth:`__getitem__` so that ``LoggedVar[t]`` is valid as a type::
+The :class:`Generic` base class defines :meth:`__class_getitem__` so that
+``LoggedVar[t]`` is valid as a type::
 
    from typing import Iterable