# Why I’ll Keep Saying ‘Pregnant Women’ ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Helen Lewis]] - Full Title: Why I’ll Keep Saying ‘Pregnant Women’ - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/pregnant-women-people-feminism-language/620468/ - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > The argument for the second wave’s language changes was that women fought fires in the exact same way as men, so one word should cover both sexes. That’s a different decision from whether we should keep gendered language to reflect heavily gendered experiences.