Gender equality does no harm at all to society.

Off the debating floor (see comments), Con made the point that he will not “enjoy debating that one gender does not deserve those inalienable rights.” It is not “inalienable rights” that is the issue, by the way, the term is Unalienable Rights. These Rights are defined by the physical Laws of Nature, of which all life has and is the engine to evolution. I will make the point of evolution clear, at least on the social level, as we proceed in the debate. Con also apologized for not defining “gender equality” and took issue with my definition in Round 1. He further lament that “everyone knew I [Con] meant the gender equality of feminism... etc.” In Round 2, Con came out of the gate with the following definition, “Gender equality by definition harms men, women, families and society.”Not everyone shares Con's definition. For example, Wikipedia has the following definition, “Gender equality, also known as sex equality, sexual equality or equality of the genders, refers to the view that men and women should receive equal treatment, and should not be discriminated against based on gender, unless there is a sound biological reason for different treatment.” http://en.wikipedia.org... Everyone, including women have the same Unalienable Rights of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Discrimination often results in unhappiness. Then, why discriminate based on gender? The answer is a function of cultural norms, as oppose to one's Unalienable Rights. The focus is on cultural norms and by their dynamics, are stable (aka Conservative) in nature. That is, they change very gradually over time. Stability in cultural norms is a good thing, where both Progressives and Conservatives, and most humans embrace stability. Who in their right mind would embrace social chaos?On the other hand, the main objective of the US Constitution is to embrace and protect the individual's Unalienable Rights from the crimes of others and from the crimes of government, no more, no less. For example, in the beginning and having the mission to embrace and protect everyone's Unalienable Rights, the US started with a difficult task relative to the cultural reality of the day. Cultural norms do not change overnight, because they are inherently Conservative. Slavery and woman's standing in society were deeply rooted in the culture, including the norms of the ruling-class, for they too reflect the culture of the day. Our founding Fathers knew Unalienable Rights will remove cultural ills, as a result, slavery, the treatment of woman, and today's treatment of gays, etc, in time during the evolution of culture as a function of our Unalienable Rights and the design of Congress, representing the people, and the only branch to make law correcting such cultural ills.What are cultural ills? Anything having to do with cultural norms where a group of individuals cannot morally achieve “Happiness” within society because of those norms. Group unhappiness feeds back to the mission of Congress to make adjustments in the attempt in correcting those cultural ills in the evolution of norms. One may argue the Civil War, having its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, did a lot of harm to society by the death of hundreds of thousands of humans from the carnage on many battle fields. Over the ages, many cultural norms, relative to men and woman, have their roots from religious doctrine. Over the last hundred years our government controlled educational system is on the path towards secularism, diversity, etc, moving away from our traditional roots. Also, over the last hundred years government taxation on the individual went from null to about 50% of one's yearly income. When government takes half of your earnings, encourages two people in the house to work. The event of large groups of women entering the workforce, a cultural ill of discrimination surfaced in the workplace enhanced “gender equality,” which had its roots in the early part of the last century over voting issues. Gender equality does no harm to society. What is harming our society is government over taxation, while our secular government schools not teaching the subject of morality and embracing diversity in place of Americanism. Con gets down in the weeds on complaints that have little to do with discrimination against gender. Con focuses on the transitional friction in society during the dynamic of any cultural change, while the flow of society settles to a new norm. And in saying that, thank God hundreds of thousands are not dying over this transition of “gender equality,” compared to slavery. On the other hand, through the laws set by Congress both slavery and gender equality under the law should now be historical settled issues, why so much press on racism and gender inequality today? In addition, there is potential disaster on the horizon created by our government's PC (Political Correctness) over diversity, while the orthodox Islamic groups come flocking into the US. Most are too familiar on the Islamic view of a woman's place in society. When that event crystalizes into violence, would Con still blame gender equality doing harm to society? What is even more concerning, which group will our government cater to, while the structure of our government morphs into some progressive “living constitutional” concept, away from our founding configuration, as in “fundamental change.” Gender equality is in the noise relative to the slow cancer that has metastasize throughout our government. Con should recalibrate his concerns by seeing the movie "America." http://www.youtube.com... This cancer had spread throughout our society with the enhancement of divide and conquer techniques with straw-men such as: racism, divide between the sexes, tension between the haves and have-nots, healthcare inequalities, the unfair wealth of the US stealing from the rest of the world, etc. As these straw-men crises becomes critical, a progressive tyrannical government steps in taking control, as the masterminds create the illusion of solving the problem. For example, "There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."The above quote, by Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) African American political leader, educator and author. To paraphrase Booker T. There is a class of feminists who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the women before the public. Some of these people do not want the women to lose their grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of feminists-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well. Where are these “colored people” and feminists in our society “who don't want the patient to get well," stirring up angst in our society? You will find them in our government schools, media, and scattered throughout many government departments, where hundreds of thousands of nonelected government employees writing regulations, having the same power as law, to control society. Under this progressive “living constitutional” configuration, Congress, for the most part, is essentially out of the loop no longer representing the people, too busy with lobbyists and getting reelected. There is a complex subtle thread of progressive-perversion running through the tapestry of our society embracing a large centralize tyrannical government, creating straw-men to solve all our problems, an opposite scenario to the US Constitution. My Friend Con, gender equality does not harm our society, the root of the problem is far more complex and serious.