Plastic in pregnant people

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www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/chemicals-pregnant-insecticide-plastic-b2075156.html?amp

Scientists find plastic inside pregnant people.

Fucks sake

The findings are horrifying. Probably the same plastics are inside all non-pregnant people, too.

I know this of no importance compared to the above sentence, but I hate that language. It dehumanises, even in this neutralised form, because it erases which types of 'people' they are writing about.

Wonder if the Independent would do a men's fashion article about facial grooming and in it include something like this:

"This year the fashion is for beards, but some people still prefer a clean-shaved chin. The people who like their moustache are out of luck."

Ohmygoodness, one would think that if health experts spent a year studying this, they would have noticed that all of the pregnant people are women!

They did. The original article speaks only of women throughout.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c08942

It’s an ideological and editorial decision by the Independent to change it to “people”. If it was my paper, I would complain.

It’s an ideological and editorial decision by the Independent to change it to “people”. If it was my paper, I would complain.

I did. It's easy and quick.

I meant if it was my academic paper they were misrepresenting, but that’s good to do also.

I think this is disgusting

The Independent, a newspaper that platforms abusive, misogynistic Twitter trolls as "journalists". Their bias is clear.

Depressing both because of the issue of plastics and the daft ideological slant taken by the Independent.

Response to my partner when she complained:

"the author is entitled to use the words that they choose when writing an article. In this case the author has chosen to refer to the pregnant individuals as people. That is not inaccurate, they certainly are people. "

It was a man who wrote to her. He called us 'they' which is mis-gendering

@triggernometry Hoping they can call up the editorial staff of the papers who do this. What are they hoping to achieve?