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We're not talking 95%/5% here, more 99.99995 / 0.00005%.

And trying to even argue that men cannot be pregnant is even doing too much. It is as insane as trying to "debate" whether the earth is round.



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> The overwhelming majority of men can't get pregnant.

Human males obviously can't get pregnant, only human females.


> Some men can be pregnant

Only if you define man in a way such that any person can claim manhood.


> 100% of the males who get naturally pregnant.

Almost, some trans men can get pregnant. But I am being pedantic.


The overwhelming majority of men can't get pregnant.

The implication that women can get pregnant but that men cannot is deeply harmful and transphobic. Please reconsider your assertion.

Men can not be pregnant, that’s what makes them men

Lol it's both. Men don't get pregnant

I think you're straw-manning the "common sense" view. "Unable to get pregnant" is actually not a common definition of "male", afaics

As long as you don't say "Men can't get pregnant!!"

It's obviously not the same. A man does not physically get pregnant.

This is a load of crap.

>if the data on sperm counts is extrapolated to its logical conclusion, men will have little or no reproductive capacity from 2060 onwards.

No, that's not extrapolating to its logical conclusion. That's extrapolating a trend as if it will continue without changing. In reality, even at these lower levels, sperm counts are considered in the normal range.


There is a problem with that argument.

You often need a man to make the baby.


I don't know why this was voted down. We've been performing in vitro fertilisation en masse since the 1980s. All of a sudden, men with non-motile sperm are fathering children.

So as a single cause it's not that massive, but at 1% of all births, the effects will soon stack up.


That makes sense but that must be a very small percentage of all people who can potentially become pregnant.

I think 2% is actually a very high risk for something with rather severe consequences. Still, the desire to have kids is probably higher in most men.

Modern medicine allows it. It's no longer a question of perception - it is possible to be a man and be pregnant, literally.

Men don't get pregnant. A man and two women can give birth to 10 children (5 each). A woman and two men cannot do the same.

>nearly one in six couples in the US have trouble conceiving a baby, and about half the time the man is at the root of the problem.

While true that a laptop isn't good for male reproductive systems, it's still 50/50 chance (random) which sex is to blame for reproductive difficulties...


Scientific fact is no longer fact, but merely a social construct. Even though it is scientifically impossible for a man to get pregnant, that statement might hurt someone’s feelings so it must be banned.
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