Ordinary Words 5 - Lodging a Protest

The ordinary word this time is 'pregnant', and I'm a little grumpy about it.  It's not the word 'pregnant' itself, but how it is presented.  People always say 'she got pregnant' or - even more annoying - 'she fell pregnant'.

What, like a woman just trips over the carpet and suddenly there's a baby in there?

Why is pregnancy presented so passively?  It requires positive action to happen; it's a deliberate act.  Pregnancy might not be the goal of said action (especially when the woman isn't willing), but it is a logical and even likely result.  I will never understand why people act all surprised when sex leads to pregnancy.  'I don't know, man, she got pregnant somehow! What do I do now?'

I'm literally grinding my teeth, it makes me so angry.

I suggest that we immediately remove the sentence 'she fell pregnant' from the language, until someone proves that a baby happened in the act of skydiving or slipping on ice.  As for 'she got pregnant', I think the modern habit of saying 'they're pregnant' is better.  After all, a woman can't 'get pregnant' on her own.  There is no reason why she should be the only one assigned any responsibility.

Does anyone know who to call to make this phrase-change happen?

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