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Offtopic, but it’s really great to see more mainstream media use terms such as “pregnant people” rather than “pregnant women”.

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Wow. Such strong responses to this comment.

A user got out of his way to send me an email quoting my comment and telling me to kill myself, possibly out of fear of getting reported here or just to make it seem more personal? I don't even know. Just wow.

If it's off topic, why feel the need to mention it? Seemed to be gloating about it. Not very nice considering the strong feelings around unwelcome and unnatural Orwellian language manipulation.

I think it's a denial of biological reality and have less trust in outlets that use such terminology.

I don't know that I'd ever really "trusted" Wired as a news source, but yeah, reading something that has obviously undergone some kind of hard ideological editing completely unrelated to the content of the article makes it very hard to bother continuing to read.

(And ironically, the message that pregnant women are hesitant to get vaccinated, is completely lost amongst the ideological nonsense. Notice no comments about the actual putative topic of vaccine hesitancy during pregnacy).

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