Women Have It Much Easier Than Men In This Day and Age

Rebuttals: 1P1: "Any woman can get a man 100% of the time. .... [A]ny girl, fat, ugly, tall, skinny, etc can always find herself a boyfriend or lay, at the drop of a hat. .... [I]f you are a man ... getting women will become extremely depressing and stressful for you ... when the women is of arguably equal appearance to yourself. .... Tons of men like ... obese women, where literally no girls ... like obese men. .... [I]t is ... implied ... that you have to ... essentially sell yourself to ... women. ... The girl ... takes the role of a king ... the male a jester. ... Yet Peggy down the street and become an Oxycontin and [D]orito[-]eating unemployed whale and still ... a man any night of the week." 1. [[Citation needed]]. My opponent asserts this over and over again, attempting to make it appear more true-- but provides no scientific studies on the ability of men and women to enter relationships. Thus, Pro is failing to fulfill Pro's BoP. Moreover, it can be reasonably asserted that for every woman who finds or was found by a male partner, there is one male partner who has successfully found or was found by a female partner due to the nature of the relationship. If my opponent wishes to prove that the female partner is usually the one who initiates said relationship, it's again their burden. Otherwise, there is no reason to assume a disparity between males and females in success. 2. My opponent assumes that sex is inherently good, without proof. Clearly this is not always the case, such as if a person obtains an STD such as HIV. In fact, women are especially at risk to HIV in the future because of the nature of HIV and sexual relations [1][2]. In addition, about a third of women will face sexual violence during their lifetimes, often leading to STD infection or mental health problems [3]. This is a result of the current power disparity in relationships between males and females [2]. --- 1P2: “[W]omen typically make less money then men ... because ... women work in different jobs than men, thus the less pay. If a women ... are ... in the ... same job for something they can both handle well (clerical duties for example), the pay is the same. However, a man with ... no talents ... is ... screwed if he has no skills ... for earning a living. Whereas a women can head towards prostitution and earn a killing[.] .... [N]o matter what you look like there[']s some guy online ... who will gladly ... become your sugar daddy at the drop of a hat.” 1. [[Citation needed]] for the pay-gap assertion. 2. Actually, women make less money than men even when in the same jobs [4], especially as jobs get higher-paying and more managerial, stunting the growth of women CEOs and various similar jobs [4]. So "gender segregation" is clearly only a small part of the problem. 3. Further, part of the reason that "gender segregation" exists is because societal values propagated by people who support your mindset effectively stop women from either wanting to go into male-dominated jobs or societally-“male” jobs. By removing this mindset, the gender separation problem will be greatly reduced. 4. Wow. Prostitution. Really great case there. Because it’s not like McDonalds or Subways exist and pay for people with no specific skills to prepare food. My opponent effectively states that it’s perfectly fine if women are forced into prostitution by necessity. My opponent glorifies a profession that degrades the basic humanity of humans, pushes out the elderly after they aren’t beautiful enough, that has no applicable and transferrable job skills and so prevents other work, and that ultimately helps maintain the image of women as sex toys. 5. By “If a women ... are ... in the ... same job for something they can both handle well (clerical duties for example)” are you attempting to assert that women are not capable of or suited for nonclerical duties? --- 1P3: “[I]f … physical arguments takes place between a couple, where fists are being thrown, a male will always take more heat. … [I]f a woman assaults a man … it is seen much less serious than if the roles were reversed[.]” 1. [[Citation needed]] for the physical violence assertion. 2. Again look to my source [2] about sexual violence. Further, women are victimized about 4-3 times as often as men are in intimate violence [5], suggesting that even if men get blamed more often, it is correct that this is so. This violence probably stems from the power relationship in marriages, where women are more often seen as inferior and/or incapable than males [2]. --- 1P4: “At the end of the day the only things we truly were put on this earth for is to survive and replicate. At the end of the day those two things are much more easily obtained from a lesser woman than a lesser male.” 1. What are you attempting to assert here? That because we evolved, it’s acceptable to objectify women as merely means to the end of producing babies? Because I cannot draw any other conclusions from this statement. 2. Evolution makes NO statements about what ought to be, only about what is. Just because we evolved, does not mean that we have to act like it. --- 1P5: “Why is there a lot more whack job males than women. Rape, killings, etc. This is because of the rejection, hardships and added stresses a male has compared to a women that eventually causes their psych to snap. Just look at … [E]lliot [R]odgers … Yes the kid was messed up … but a girl … would of have a loving boyfriend it would have never come to that. Need data driven proof? Suicide rates are high for males in every country. 5-10x higher in most cases. I can guarantee you majority of these, at least in western cultures are fueled from life long rejection, feeling physically inadequate via the sexless 16-44 year old male. 1. [[Citation needed]]. 2. Actually, male successful suicide rates in most Western countries are about 3 times as high as female successful suicide rates [6]. However, women attempt to commit suicide more often than males [7]. This disparity results from the higher use of immediately fatal methods by males (such as gun and bridge), which prevent any remorse or going back [7]. --- 1P6: “Legalize brothels and keep women on tighter leashes, like we previously had in society, and I bet chunks of that suicide rate would drop here.” 1. [[Citation needed]]. 2. I’m actually for legalized prostitution, because it would improve the quality of the lives of those men and women trapped in it, rather than any social-control methods. --- In summary, Pro has failed to meet the Burden of Proof, while I have proven repeatedly that women experience more problems in modern society than men. --- References: [1] https://www.womenshealth.gov... [2] http://www.thelancet.com...(04)16098-4/fulltext DDO handles the above HTML weird. Just click the link and paste the rest of the URL into the browsing bar.[3] http://www.who.int... [4] http://www.economist.com... [5] http://www.victimsofcrime.org... [6] http://www.theguardian.com... [7] http://www.womenshealth.gov...