In the UK, men are discriminated against more than women.

Rebuttal"1. There are no laws that discriminate against men. So there is no lawful discrimination of men, therefore men are not discriminated more than women, on the grounds that they are not discriminated at all."Actually, there are. As I've already shown in a previous round, men aren't entitled to a financial abortion. Women cannot be forced to serve in the army, whilst men can be. As I've already established, the courts system is biased in favour of women "2. Women are objectified relentlessly by mainstream media, damaging their self esteem. Men are beggining to be subject to the same thing, but on a much smaller scale." My opponent has not established that women are more often objectified than men are. My opponent has not established that the real-world consequences of this objectification would be any worse for women. My opponent has not established that objectification of people who are (fe)/male in the media is overall a negative thing. "3. Women cannot be on the front-line in the army, but men can be mid-wives. Women are thusly discriminated against more than men here, not just as much as."Being a mid-wife doesn't take the amount of skill that it takes to be on the front-line in the army. Yes, it may still take a lot of hard work, but it doesn't take the same amount of skill. Also, it is now possible for women to be on the front-line in the army [1]."4. Women are expected to be more responsible to their children than men, putting additional pressure on them not subject to men. I am not arguing whether this is right or wrong, but simply stating it as another example by which men are not discriminated."However, what my opponent isn't mentioning is how similar pressure is on the man to get a job. But there may even be less pressure on women to have children now, as more young women are now choosing dogs over babies [2]."5. As I have already shown that men are not discriminated against lawfully, we must look more keenly. One way to see if any group (minority, ethnic e.t.c) is being discriminated against in a society, is to look at the positions, wealth and power of that group. So lets do that. Women earn 15% less (1). Only one in five members of government are women (2). Women own, on average, 17% less wealth than men (3). So women are on average, poorer, paid less and less powerful than men. So men cannot be discriminated more than women. Maybe the same, but certainly not more."My opponent is assuming that these facts are due to discrimination, when the more plausible explanation is that women tend to choose careers in childcare rather than to work in construction or to become a CEO, women generally work fewer hours [3], and women tend to stay at home more than men to look after and raise children. My opponent has also not given any possible reason in this entire debate as to answer why a more competent woman cannot work hard and become a CEO, or an MP."However, I cannot leave somebody saying that men are subject to exactly the same objectification by media, undisputed. Have you ever herd of the Bechdel test? The test is, (and its to be subject to films): does the film have more than one female character. Do they talk to each other. When they talk, is it about a man. Now, in a world where men are discriminated, you would expect that very few films that would actually show this degree of sex bias towards men wouldn't you? Well in fact, 43.3% of film fail this test (4). Meaning that almost half of our films are incredibly sex bias, and in favour of men!"It doesn't matter how many films fail or pass this test, because either way, it isn't an indicator of a certain film having a bias/discrimination based on sex. Different films can have different target audiences. How many chick flicks do you think would've passed this test if the genders were switched around? Again, my opponent has not established why an equally competent woman wouldn't be able to work hard and get a role in a certain genre of film if she really wanted to.What my opponent isn't telling us here is how many men are depicted as perverts, or violent, etc. If he wants to argue that this isn't discrimination because it's accurate of reality, then why isn't it sexist that men get a lot of leading roles in films, and jobs in leadership, as both men and women prefer a male boss [4]."As for the rest of media if you need an explanation, here is a quote from a study on music videos: "Compared to male artists, female artists were more sexually objectified, held to stricter appearance standards, and more likely to demonstrate sexually alluring behavior" (5). Again though, you don't need this to tell you that, if you watch the music channel yourself."Sexual objectification is not the only form of objectification, and certainly not the only form of harmful objectification. Examples of desired male attributes are bravery and muscle, whilst desired female attributes are beauty and being cute. How many women do you see with their tops off in Rom coms/Chick flicks/Twilight?"Women spend $151 billion more than men on beauty products (6) demonstrating that women are more self-conscious and worried about there appearance."That would make sense because they're female beauty products. However, there's not an equivalent product readily available, cheap, and claiming to make you brave, or confident, or give you a six pack. How many hours do you think girls spend in football training? Not many, I'd say!"So no, your search on google images for 'abs', does not convince me against everything that I see daily on tv and billboards."The difference being that I provided proof for my side!"Male nerds are quirky and loveable."I'm not sure what you're responding to there, but the nerds depicted in the media are socially awkward, humourous in their failure to attract members of the opposite sex and as shown above, even physically abused. Plus, they don't have complex personalities of their own. Therefore, this is vicious objectification."But I also think you miss this point: You say a man cannot back out of having a child? Why not use protection? If your not 'ready', as you put it."*You're. Here's the thing, is that no contraception has a 100% success rate, people like having sex, and people make mistakes. You are still denying a man to be able to pull out of having to provide for a child he doesn't want to have and doesn't want the woman to have, whilst women do have that right. "More funding for female cancer than male? Well the least funding goes to the biggest killer (heart problems) like I said, and so this is not an accurate measure of discrimination."It looks like my opponent doesn't think lack of funding for one gender's exclusive cancer and the other gender's overly funded primary exclusive cancer is discrimination. Denying the problem doesn't mean it isn't there."Domestic violence shelter gap. Again, this is because it was unheard of until a few years ago. There will be sufficient care given to those men who need it, and they will not be discriminated against. It was not an active choice to make more homes for women, it was a reaction to a realisation of domestic violence against women in society."My opponent here has completely ignored my arguments on this point from the previous round. The domestic violence rates for men obviously being approximately ~40% more than what domestic violence shelter building patterns suggested is not an accident. You cannot simply ignore that scale of suicides, injuries, and deaths caused by aggressive female-on-male violence."Society also has a habit of teaching males to be impulsive, exploratory and dominant."It seems like my opponent has been watching too many feminist propaganda films. Contrary to popular feminist belief, men and women aren't exactly the same in every single way. We are a sexual dimorphic species [5], and no scientific study has ever concluded that these two groups of people who are obviously exactly the same just so happened to create some rules for them and some rules for the others. Not only that, but for some reason we're so inclined to follow these roles that 99.99% of people do, without ever being sat down and told that this is the right way to behave. "They are NOT favoured by the criminal justice system, for the system is legally unbiased."This is just an assertion, and doesn't attempt to refute any of my arguments whatsoever."I don't argue that I know the reasons why people commit suicide, or become homeless. But I do know, just from my own experience and study of male sub-culture, that males are far more likely than females to make the bad choices that lead to these lives. Why, what are you saying? Than homeless women have different laws to homless men? They don't."Con offers no sources to back up his claims. However, the least this proves is that women are not more discriminated against than men. But these alarming facts do indicate that there is discrimination against men.Con has also still failed to prove: That men are impulsive, and significantly more so than women. That there are large numbers of rapes and murders that are regretted to such a degree that the person responsible sees no possible option but to kill himself. Therefore, con still has no non-discrimination based explanation for the gaps in Suicide rates and homelessness by gender.Thank you.Sources[1] http://www.theguardian.com...[2] http://nypost.com...[3] http://online.wsj.com...[4] http://www.gallup.com/poll/165791/americans-prefer-male-boss.aspx[5] http://en.wikipedia.org...