Men and Women Are Equal

Thanks, SirCrona. I understand your assertion, but you must understand that unequal does not mean better or worse. it simply means different. Take my ball example, Red and Green balls. They're both balls and can be used for mostly the same things, however are they equally red? No. Are they equally round? Yes. Are they equally enjoyable to play with? Depending on personal preference, but you can do equal activities with each ball. But they are not equally the same colour. Red =/= green. It is not a bad thing that one is red and one is green, just like one sex has breasts and develops different parts of the brain at different speeds, and one sex has no breasts and also develops different parts of the brain at different speeds, they are unequal, but one isn't superior to the other. Biology Yes, every difference makes an inequality. My definition of "difference" is "not alike in character or quality," [1] emphasis on quality. Not alike in quality is also said as inequality. Your definition doesn't have the word quality anywhere, so if anything we should just leave it up to the voters to decide which definition is more reliable. "The colour of the ball is just a quality..." And what happens when the qualities are different? We get inequality. You're right that the balls would be equal for playing catch with, however they would not be equal in colour. Having one equal aspect does not make the two objects 100% equal. That's like saying one man and one woman both scored 121 on an IQ test, therefore men and women are equal. No, they aren't completely equal, we just have one situation where they scored an equal score on a test. This does not make the whole of the two sexes equal. The difference in colour is in fact what makes the balls unequal. It's the only unequal quality of the two balls. To say a red ball and a green ball are the same, or equal, just... doesn't make sense. Cancer You bring mortality rates into it, but those seem to be on my side. "Men are the only ones capable of dying from testicular cancer." - Women are not. This is an inequality. Women cannot develop testicular Cancer, this is an inequality. Men are much less likely to develop breast cancer, this is an inequality. Although both gender get cancer, 700,000 more men die than women due to Cancer, in 2013 anyway [2]. So to say Men and women are equal when it comes to diseases such as Cancer.... doesn't make sense. Breastfeeding The only difference is that breast milk is naturally produced by a woman. Antibiotics are not produced by men or women. Are you implying that the man-made medicine is equal to naturally produced "medicine"? Because it's not naturally produced, so I don't see how it's equal. Data Usage Where's my evidence that these are related to sex? By the outcome of the studies themselves. I see your point, however to say sex is not a factor when women score higher than men on tests... once again, doesn't make sense. A woman scoring 102 and a man scoring 100 is not equal. I'm sure we can agree on that. Is it strictly because they're just different sexes? I'm sure no, but when these scores are different within the sexes, doesn't that mean something? I showed you that infant boys and girls grow differently from birth, so it's safe to assume their brains also grow differently. The scores are a reflection of intelligence, and considering women score slightly higher than men as a whole, isn't that enough to show men and women aren't mentally equal? They grow differently (unequally) from birth, so what says their brains don't too? Actually, nothing says their brains don't, [3]. So what have we seen in this short time? Men and women are different, biologically and mentally, this is not a bad thing, and neither supports a "better" trait, however this does show there are many inequalities between men and women, during their mid life crisis, or from birth. And please keep in mind that one difference in one area shows that men and women as a whole are not equal. They can share as many traits as you can count to, but if one thing doesn't add up between the two, the ability to produce natural milk, for example, that just goes to show that men and women, as a whole, are not equal. Thanks, looking forward to a great conclusion. [1] http://dictionary.reference.com... [2] http://www.cancer.org... [3] http://www.scientificamerican.com...