Males are superior to females

To clarify, though my personal taste may say that woman are better than man, the burden that I have in this debate is not to substantiate that woman are better, only that men are not. REBUTTALMy opponent split his arguments based on three attributes, "physical, mental and emotional". I will address them continued along this line. a. physicalPro asserts that because men hold more athletic records, they are physically superior. My counter-arguments is:1. That female physicality is responsible for the reproduction and nursing of the species.2. That this characteristic has more value than any athletic dominance present in males. The survival of the species has had a level of dependence on the physical abilities of men. But this ability has both secondary and temporary value in comparison with the physical abilities of women in the contextual realm of human survival. Men have largely been responsible for the need of hunting in our ancestral past and even in current primitive societies. But if a civilization were required to make a choice between it's ability to hunt and it's ability to reproduce and nurse, the superior choice becomes obvious. Furthermore, once a civilization has become fully developed, the need for hunt no longer applies, unlike reproduction and nursing. Your argument has been negated. b. mentalPro asserts that because men have higher IQs than women, they are mentally superior. My counter-argument is:1. Gender is not the deciding factor in male/female intelligence differences.2. That, when the deciding factor is removed, women have a higher intelligence than men. The myth that men are mentally superior than women is firmly rooted in the minds of many, due to many studies that appear to back up the claim. But further investigation shows that this is another tragic case of confusing correlation with causation. As the studies confirm, it is true that when the average man's IQs is compared with that of the average woman, the man's IQs is higher. But this is not an indicator that men have higher IQs because they are men. In-fact, other studies confirm that the actual factor being displayed here is that taller people have higher IQs, not men. Men, on average, are taller than women and tall people, on average, have higher IQs than short people. Not only do men no longer have higher IQs when the numbers are adjusted for height but it turns out that it is actually women who have the higher IQs. This effect is still seen when we adjust for health, physical attractiveness, age, race, education, and earnings as well [1]. This may be why we find that, on average, women have higher grades than men [2] and that more women become college graduates [3]. But, to be more thorough, I'd like to address the fact that IQ tests are not a way to completely understand one's intelligence. It is becoming more well understood that there is no one specific form of intelligence, that there is a wide variety of different cognitive abilities and they are not as strongly correlated as the reasoning behind IQ tests would seem to suggest [4]. IQ tests focus entirely on logical-mathematical skills, only one aspect of intelligence. There is also creative, musical-artistic, kinesthetic, spatial, linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, factual, multi-attentive and many, many more. In-fact, women are superior to men in many of these aspects. On musical-artistic, it seems females tend to be better musicians. You may personally disagree with that but Facebook charts show that all of the top liked musicians are female [5]. Furthermore, there are really only two kind of people who become fashion designers and decorators, women and gay men, a job which requires a high degree of creativity and artistic thinking [6]. On linguistics, women are shown to use more of their brain for language skills than man, particularly in the way that men's language skills are more right-brain dominated whereas woman use both sides of the brain to a larger degree [7]. Furthermore, the parts of the brain which control linguistic reasoning are observed to be proportionally larger in women than in men [8]. This may be why women are more adapt at learning a second language than men [9]. On interpersonal and intrapersonal, women are shown to have a higher EI score, emotional intelligence, than men [10]. The last thing that I would like to bring up for now is multi-tasking skills, which scientific research, as well as common understanding, suggests that women are more adept at [11]. Your argument has been negated. c. emotionalPro asserts that because women have more depression and stress, they are less mentally healthy than men. My counter-argument: 1. Men and women express negative emotion differently.2. The expressions of negative emotion in men are more dangerous to society than those of women.3. Men are extremely violent in comparison with women. It is observed that men are inclined to becoming angry whereas women are inclined to becoming sad [12]. These are two different expressions of stress and there is nothing to suggest that women are particularly under anymore of it when this is taken into account. Furthermore, the expression of angry has far more potential for inflicting harm than does sadness, especially when combined with man's more innate violent nature. The violent nature in men becomes apparent when reflected in these statistics:88% of homicides are committed by men. 93.5% for multiple homicides [13].99% of rape is committed by men [14].80% of the United States military(similar to most other nations) is made up of men [15]. This is understandable, since, as I pointed out earlier, men were made so adept at hunting whereas women would nurture the children. However, it points, quite unavoidably, to the fact that women have extremely better emotional health. After-all, by what other standard should we measure mental health than it's affect on the rest of society? A mental state that has killed so many and causes so much suffering would not be considered healthy by my own standards I hope not by yours. Your argument has been negated. CONCLUSIONI have negated all my opponent's arguments and have consequentially established, in fulfillment of my burden in this debate, not only that men are not superior to women but also, in going beyond my call of duty, with reasonable and vast substantiation that women are, in-fact, the superior gender. I rest my case for now I turn over the floor to Pro. 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