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Migrating cells and the new science of microchimerism

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39 points by Marceltan 4 months ago · 2 comments · 1 min read

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inglor_cz 4 months ago

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.

  • DrScientist 4 months ago

    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?

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