Scientists adapting language like "pregnant people" under pressure of the online activist class are only damaging credibility of science in the eyes of the public.
A little odd perhaps - but is it really that offensive?
The interesting bit is that almost everyone has a bit of there mother in them, and mothers have bits of their children in them - long after birth.
Language is odd - all depends on how you read a phrase - so some feminist's pushed to replace the phrase 'women and children' with 'women and girls' because they felt women being lumped together with children was demeaning and enforcing stereo-types.
However there are uses of the phrase 'women and girls' which seems to erase boys from the conversation completely - and actually strengthen stereotypes of weak women. For example - the number of women and girls killed in Gaza.
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