Men are oppressed in today's society.

Not a problem! Yours is definitely cleaner and more organized! Hopefully this conclusion doesn't seem rude- It is not my intention, Before I conclude my half of the debate, I want to go back to some of your points. First of all, I'm a little concerned that the claim was off from the subject matter- men's oppression. While I realize that you are well-aware of this, I'm not quite sure how to debate with a claim that doesn't perfectly fit within the debate question. Aside from this, I discovered a couple points she made that I would like to cover. 1) Just because our brains are different is not an excuse for these numbers. These differences in brains between genders is not prohibiting change. While these brain differences can't be fixed, the numbers certainly can be helped through academic attention . In fact, when you look into today's treatment of young boys in school settings you will find that they are mistreated academically. Proof? This is a video by Christina Hoff Sommers called the "War on Boys" that covers exactly this. 2) As I tried to talk about during my second round, how much you earn is NOT based on pay but on hours. Proof? The Equal Pay Law of 1963. The Equal Pay Law of 1963 states: "(1) No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority system; (ii) a merit system; (iii) a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or (iv) a differential based on any other factor other than sex." Logically, as an employer, I would rather equally pay my staff than pay potentially millions in lawsuits as I would have have broken the law in that case. https://www.eeoc.gov... 3) As for your point on men becoming drug dependent- it goes back to the idea of how men are oppressed socially. According to M.Farouk Radwan, people drink alcohol for several reasons; "mood regulation, to let others see them differently, and to prove something & protect their beliefs." In my mind at least, these are socially-related issues. While I realize that this is universal between genders, it still applies to men. If men are walking into parties as teenagers, a critical time for them to find their identities, believing that they need to drink to "prove something and let others see them differently," to me we could consider that oppression, if we know why the teen wanted to drink. https://www.2knowmyself.com... In conclusion, I believe that men are oppressed socially, academically, in the workplace, etc. To be specific, men are oppressed through their amount of hours worked, their academic treatments, their association with crime, etc. Thanks for the debate and good luck! You did awesome for your first debate- meanwhile I hope I was at least sufficient.