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

I would firstly like to say that my opponent bases half of his arguments on statistics. It's difficult to draw conclusions based on statistics, and they don't always reflect exactly what they seem to reflect when looked at with a particular viewpoint. For instance; he says that 90% of homeless people are male, and he suggests that this is evidence of discrimination against males, but he does not consider other factors that may be responsible for the disparity between male and females being homeless. Factors that could make males more likely to be homeless, lie in the biological differences between men and women, males are more impulsive, aggressive and careless. They are more likely to live the lifestyles and behave in the ways that result in homelessness and poverty. Your first argument: financial abortion. I bealieve Pregnancy is different for women than for men, women should have different rights to men in the matter. Men provide nothing but DNA information that is endlessly producible: women provide the egg which she only has a set number of, and which are far more important than sperm in the foetus' early development. Then, following the conception, women must bare a burden so heavy, that most men will never endure anything like it. Women can only have a certain amount of babies also, because it drains their bodies to such an extent. My opponent is saying that he thinks a man should be able to force his partner to have an abortion if they don't want it. This is not right to me. I cannot imagine what my partner would have done, when she got pregnant, if I forced an abortion on her. Do you honestly think this is okay? So my opponents first argument doesn't work, because there is only one sex who could be allowed to decide on pregnancy, and so I guess you could say nature has discriminated against men, but not society. Society has to deal with the situation nature has given us. Your second argument is that prostate cancer gets half the funding breast cancer gets. Well this runs true throughout these issues. Only tonight, my wife showed me a chart showing the amounts of funding different conditions get, in comparison to there mortality rate. I cannot for the life of me find this chart, but the differences where huge. One thing I do remember is that heart disease was the biggest killer, and got almost the lowest amount of funding. So my point is, that my opponents second argument doesn't necessarily demonstrate discrimination. Instead, it demonstrates inconsistency in the medical industry. My opponents third argument is that there is only one male shelter for every 180 women's shelters for domestic abuse, when men make up 40% of those abused. I don't think this is because we discriminate against men, men have the same laws subject to them as to women in terms of violence. I think this is because this research you speak of was only made public a few years ago. People have simply been ignorant to the extent of male domestic abuse, the necessary care will be provided in time. Your fourth argument is that women are favoured by the criminal justice system. The only evidence you give is an example of a particular women getting away with rape. This does not prove your case. If women are apparently favoured by the criminal justice system, then I believe this is because the court system works off subjective analysis of the criminals. I mean, a jury has to judge the character of a person and the police have to suspect a person. In short: if you look like a criminal, your more likely to get pulled or to be judged in a negative way. Men look more like criminals, again that's nature making men the more aggressive, dominant one, and thus men are made in people's minds to be more 'criminal' in their nature than females. So because of this (true) stereotype, men are more likely to be judged as guilty or to be suspected in the first place. There is no active discrimination going on there. Homeless gap I explained in the first paragraph. Due to their very biology, men are more likely to become homeless. Also, they maybe less likely to be helped out of homelessness than women for numerous reasons that are not discriminatory laws and decisions. Suicide argument: again it's statistics. Men are more likely to live lives that cause them to commit suicide. Because they are impulsive, they are more likely to do things they regret (rape, murder). Resulting in loosing family and friends and feelings of shame. Men are not more likely to commit suicide-men are more likely to behave in ways that increase the possibility of suicide. This statistic proves nothing. Women may be so used to oppression that they can just deal with their problems better than men, and so don't commit suicide. I mean, suicide rates are higher in the UK than in parts of the world considered to be in poverty. Suicide rates do not prove that men are discriminated more than women. You must try and give reason for it, and consider other factors that might be responsible for the difference between men and women.