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Feminism is currently helping us reach gender equality in 1st world countries

However you are kind of right that I didn't provide enough evidence to support my claims, so allow me to fix that. So first off let me prove that women do not take some of the opportunities they have, particularly in STEM fields: http://www.sify.com... Also if you look here you will see that women, on average, chose lower paying majors in college than men: http://www.payscale.com... Recently women also outnumbered men in the work force: http://www.nytimes.com... If women make up over 50% of the workforce how can you logically say that men have more opportunities than women? Please look at the stats I previously cited about females having the upper hand in all grade levels of school. This proves society and the system favor women and give them more opportunities. I feel like that's plenty of evidence to back up the remaining of my claims, so now let's move on. " The part that you failed is agreeing with me the argument is "Feminism is currently helping us reach gender equality in 1st world countries" and here you say you agree with equality for all humans "Women should have equal rights and opportunities" I completely agree I am egalitarian and believe in equality for all humans. so there you agree with my pro argument" The first thing that came to my mind when I read this is that I honestly am disappointed in you. I believe you know very well that I never did agree with your pro argument, and I did not think you would go so low as to twist are paraphrase my words to try to benefit you. Anyways let's wrap this up. Resolution: Feminism is currently helping us reach gender equality in 1st world countries What I said was I am egalitarian and I believe in equality for all humans. If you agree with me I think that's a great thing. However believing in equality is very very different from believing in feminism, therefore me believing in equality and us agreeing on that should have nothing to do with this debate. Now with all of your arguments all you have tried to do is say that women are given less opportunities than men. You still have not proven is that feminism is helping our society reach gender equality. In regards to the resolution I think it's fair to say you did NOT prove that the resolution is true, therefore you should not win the round. On the other hand let's take a look at what I have done with my arguments. I have proven that men face countless gendered issues that women don't and feminism does nothing about it, hence they do not work towards gender equality. I have brought up evidence to debunk common feminist defenses. I have proven that feminism has made gendered problems worse for men, thus pushing our society further away from gender equality. I have also proven feminism has stopped/hindered action from being taken to solve men's issues as proven by my Earl Silverman story and a few other examples. I have (in my opinion) done a very good job in rebutting your claims with a mountain of evidence. In regards to the resolution I think it's very fair to say I have proved that the resolution is false, therefore con should win. I would like to remind you now that according to the rules you are NOT allowed to bring up any new arguments, hence it is the 5th and last round, so I have no time to respond. Therefore in order to obey the rules you have to stick to your argument that women are disadvantaged in regards to the economy and no more. Now I'd like to expand on my argument of how feminism is NOT helping us reach an equal society because they try to stop anything from being done about men's issues. If you read this this journal it talks about how feminism is responsible for male victims of domestic abuse being ignored by law: http://archive.law.fsu.edu.... If you read this it talks about how feminism has skewed how society views domestic violence in a way that completely ignores the male voice. Even after it being empirically proven that males and females are perpetrators of DV almost the same amount they still reject this are try to keep the myth alive that only male violence exists. The feminist movement has denied concrete evidence that proves men can be victims just as much as women and continues to demonize men based on a myth. Does that sound like equality? If you watch this video you can see feminists trying to stop a forum talking about issues men face: . Feminism has not only created many problems for men, but will actively try to stop anything from being done to solve the problems. Does feminism still sound like it's for equality? So hence the resolution, Feminism is currently helping us reach gender equality in 1st world countries. Well here's the answer, no. Feminism is not helping us reach gender equality in 1st world countries, because it 1. Does not try to solve all issues that are preventing us from reaching equality. 2. Has created many issues that are pushing us further away from a equal society. 3. Attempts to stop anything from being done about the very issues feminism has caused. Even one of those issues is enough to mean that the movement is not for equality, but you have 3. Not only is it not helping us reach equality, but it's not even close. If we want a society with gender equality we need to reject feminism and embrace egalitarianism and movements that truly bring our society closer to equality. Good debate, and I sincerely hope you and any others who viewed this left the debate with a better understanding of the issue.