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.
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.
https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/news/2025/05/un-wome...
Aren't small boys likely to be just as innocent ( in fact more so ) than women? Is the death of a 5 year old boy not worthy of counting?
Why not count civilians and children?