"The Gulf of America" and the AP's Recent History of Linguistic Atrocities

Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico is stupid.

The AP is right about that one, and no doubt.

But that name-change is nothing compared to the woke PC madness the AP has engaged in over the past few years.
Just for the record.

"Pregnant people" is a funny one. Decades ago I remember thinking that "pregnant women" was a bit odd because redundant. Every pregnant person has, of course, been a woman. If the point of 'pregnant people' were, indeed, to eliminate that redundancy, that would at least be one thing. But it isn't. As AP itself says, it's (mostly) because some women pretend to be men--even when pregnant. Of course the actual number of pregnant men (all time) is 0.00. But this isn't about facts and logic, it's about Lysenkoism.

Also again: 'Denali' is a much cooler name than 'Mt. McKinley'...