Our Democrat friends often fancy themselves as members of the "party of science," waging battle against the forces of ignorance and superstition which they assume to abound on the right.
This charming conceit seems to be regularly refuted by facts but nevertheless persists as though it were impervious to any falsification.
The latest blow to the notion that Democrats are uniquely wedded to the hard realities of science comes in an online poll by WPA Intelligence conducted from August 22nd to the 25th. The poll found that 36% of white, college-educated female Democrats agreed with the statement that "Some men can get pregnant."
Overall, 22% of Democrats concurred.
This is astonishing. Over 1/5 of those who identify as members of the party of science are convinced that men can get pregnant even though such a prodigy has never been known to occur in all of human history, nor has anyone explained how it could occur.
It would be interesting to see the answers had the respondents been asked to outline the science behind their belief.
How, for instance, does a person without a uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries get pregnant? Has any male ever been born with this apparatus or had it transplanted into him? Do the 22% of Democrats think that these appurtenances are unnecessary in order to conceive a child?
Are they so biologically benighted that they think that all that's required for pregnancy is to somehow insert a fertilized egg into someone's abdomen.
The 22% are, in fact, exerting blind faith in an ideology that seeks to take the equality of the sexes to an absurd extreme. If men and women are "equal," the thinking evidently goes, then they're fundamentally the same, and if they're the same what's true of one must be true of the other.
Since it's true of women that they can get pregnant it must also be true of men that, despite the totality of scientific evidence to the contrary, they, too, must be able to get pregnant.QED
This is evidently the logic employed by over 1/5 of the members of the party of science.
I'm reasonably confident that many of these 22% of Democrats who insist that men can somehow, miraculously, conceive a child are secular folks who consider the Christian doctrine of the virgin birth of Jesus to be absurd nonsense.
Miracles are apparently permitted in left-wing, secular progressive ideology, but it's completely unscientific and irrational to think that God could miraculously initiate a pregnancy.
It's very disconcerting to reflect on the fact that these people vote.
Update:
The Babylon Bee documents a case of a man who thought he was pregnant. Here's the video:
