Women Should Have the Right to Fight on the Front Lines. **March Tournament**

As per the debate format, this round will be arguments. Now, before I begin, I find that it is necessary to bring up the idea that a right is "an entitlement to something [that can be invoked at any time that is necessary and applicable]" [1]. This means that giving a woman the "right to fight on front line [combat]" would mean that she can invoke this right of hers and go join front line combat. .. at any time that is applicable. I think that this is important to note as I move forward with my arguments. Contention 1. Sexual assault. If we allow women to engage in front line combat, we are opening the ability for the enemy to capture them and commit sexual assault on them, as opposed to just killing them. Most of the nations within the world are misogynistic in practice, which means that they do not appreciate women, and would especially not appreciate them fighting against the greater good of [insert enemy country to the US here]. Enemy soldiers would take women from the front lines and try to have power of them by sexual assault, which is the major reason that sexual assault exists, not for sexual pleasure [2]. The right of a woman to not be assaulted while fighting enemy combatants outweighs the benefits of a right to join front line combat at any time (if there possibly could be any). Contention 2. Problems with the "right" to join front line combat. As I said in my little introduction to my arguments, a right may be invoked at any time and without any prior training for this right to occur. I have the right to not be illegally searched and seized, and I invoke that right automatically, without having to think about it. But I also have the right to vote, which I have to invoke voluntarily in order for my right to be processed. Giving women to right to join front line combat means that they can invoke this right whenever we are in a conflict, without training, without previous experience, and without real thought. By allowing women to join front line combat, we are forcing our armed forces to have a burden on them with unexperienced fighters that cannot do their job in the way that it was intended. Because this debate is about the RIGHT of a woman to join front line combat and I have proven that they should not have this right, I win this point and move onto my next one. Contention 3. Dismissal of popular belief. This is not so much as a contention, just something that I really want to say. A lot of people that are proponents of allowing women in front line combat often say that opponents to it are "misogynistic" and "women hating" (those are synonyms. .). However, I think that allowing a women to be free from sexual assault and away from enemy torment is more women-loving than allowing women to be raped viciously by enemy combatants and allowing them to die in a way that we cannot even imagine. I also want to bring up how a lot of proponents say that this is the moral equivalent of not allowing gay people/black people/whatever people in the military due to bigotry or hatred toward these groups of people, but this is really not the case. There is a massive difference between women and a black man/gay man/purple man in the military: if a woman was allowed in front line combat, she would suffer by friendly forces more than they would. I am not going to say that she will not suffer more than the men before her that die in the name of their country, because men and women would both die by enemy forces. However she will be tormented by people on the same side as her, which is the main factor. (sorry for wording -- english is not my first language)[1]: . http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com...[2]: . http://www.theguardian.com...