diff --git a/docs/spec/generics.rst b/docs/spec/generics.rst
index 2cb3f6f6..8fa222f8 100644
--- a/docs/spec/generics.rst
+++ b/docs/spec/generics.rst
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ should treat the two largely equivalently (except for variance, see below).
 takes a single type parameter ``T``. This also makes ``T`` valid as
 a type within the class body.
 
-The ``Generic`` base class uses a metaclass that defines ``__getitem__``
-so that ``LoggedVar[t]`` is valid as a type::
+The ``Generic`` base class implements the :func:`~object.__class_getitem__`
+classmethod so that ``LoggedVar[t]`` is valid as a type::
 
   from collections.abc import Iterable