[knaekhoved]

Language ought to "cleave reality at the joints" - i.e. approximate an information-theoretically optimal encoding.

If you start screwing over the 99.9%ile case to slightly improve the remaining 0.1%, you are not approximating an optimal encoding.

[detaro]

How does referring to someone as "pregnant person" instead of "pregnant woman" "screw them over"?

[rejectfinite]

Read the article. Its a lot of other things baked into that.