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Modern Feminism is Not Needed in America

I would refute that I broke the rules. My opponent is breaking the rules again by putting sources at the end rather than after each of the bullet point arguments as required. To add to the confusion my opponent has not even noted where those sources are used within the bullet point arguments. As for my rebuttals. My opponent continues to dishonestly misrepresent my position. In attempting to correct these strawmen in my argument R2, I went outside of the presented format, and fell into rebuttals. However, at best this is a mutual blame situation. Wage gap rebuttal My position is not nor has it ever been about the 21% wage gap, this is a strawman. The claim of 6% - 10% wage gap does not consider many factors references a factor taken from this strawman source “42 minutes less each day” discussing the 21% wage gap. This is dishonest as Pro is using points from the uncontrolled wage gap and trying to apply them a second time to the controlled wage gap to discredit the controlled wage gap. My opponent has therefore presented no argument against the wage gap, and my argument supporting the existence of a wage gap stands as the rules state that he can present a new argument in R4. Equal Opportunity rebuttal Again, my opponent is referencing the strawman of the 21% uncontrolled wage gap which “forces women to work jobs which paid higher”. The wage gap I am debating is 5 - 8% and compares the exact same job title. Again, my opponent is being dishonest and has not put forth an argument supporting that equal opportunity does exists and Pro cannot present a new argument in R4. Secondly disagree with the premise that “having no laws which target women or help men” means that “equal opportunity” exists. For this to be true Pro would have to prove laws completely control opportunity. I think we all are familiar with the old boy’s network concept (but I’ll add a link as well) where although there are no sexist laws, it is still not a case of equal opportunity. http://www.dictionary.com... Rape Culture rebuttal Again, a strawman as my position is not that the US trivialize rape. Also, my opponent dishonestly uses annual percentage and presents them as lifetime percentages. As well as being dishonest in indicating 2.1 of 1000 equals .0021% when it’s .21%. Had my opponent been more honest up to this point I would believe this an honest mathmatical mistake, but given how often Pro has dishonest, I don’t feel like this is the case, and I feel like he is exaggerating the numbers to make my position look bad. As proof on the math 10 of 1000 is 10/1000 = .01 which isn’t .01% but is actually 1%. You can confirm this by 10 X 100 = 1000. Pro also states that females are raped three times more than men annually supporting my claim that women are not treated equally when it comes to rape. Female Representation rebuttal The sexualization is another strawman and not my position, and can be dismissed. I discussed it in my argument, but it plays no part in this debate and should be ignored. Leaving only appearance in movies, shows, and video games which Pro freely states is not equal in writers or producers supporting my claim for movies. In video games Pro links steam as a source, however steam and mobile apps do not cover the whole demographic of video games, and Pro is dishonestly cherry picking the data to support his claim. Pro does not make an arguments that reference shows, so this claim can be dismissed. Pro is further cherry picking by not including non-video forms of entertainment such as books. Of the four topics listed Pro has not proven any to be equal 1 Wage gap – Pro misrepresents my position and try to apply factors twice 2 Equal Opportunity – Pro misrepresents my position applies the uncontrol factor of different job titles to the controlled wage gap rate which compares the same job title. 3 Rape Culture – Pro misrepresents my position as trivializing rape even after clarifying that to Pro in R1, then goes further and inflates the numbers in an attempt to discredit me. 4 Female representation – Pro misrepresents my position and then uses composition fallacy by presenting a subset of the data support his claim not including RPG which is dominated by women. Pro has repeatedly used dishonest tactics to attempt to prove his arguments, debating the 21% wage gap rather than the 5-8% wage gap, debating rape culture after I stated that was not my position, and finally exaggerating his numbers to make me look bad.