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    Feminism is not directed specifically toward men, but...

    Feminism is relevant

    It's not quite relevant to the point of this debate, but as a disability rights community member, I can assure you that it regards equality--equality to read the same books as sighted people, equality to access the same buildings as able-bodied people, equality for an autistic person to clap their hands and jiggle their leg to calm themself in the same socially acceptable waythatsomeone would be viewed, say,reading a book to calm themself. Anyway, onto your points: males(in human race) are biologically programmed to compete with each other to get as most females as possible and to aknowledge as their leader the one who does it better. You've lost credibility the moment you said "biologically programmed." That's meaningless. Humans have a highly-evolved cerebral cortex that enables them to think beyond their instinct. (Plus, it's worth mentioning that chimpanzees have their own structured societies and have instances of prioritizing social cohesion over physical urges. Not even some animals are animalistic.) If humans were really slaves to our biological urge to view sex this way, nobody would need to point this out. It would be as obvious as feeling thirsty after taking a grueling run. Under your assertions, I as a woman would instinctively not want to have sex with a lot of guys and try to find the one who is the "best," as if that were objective. Nobody would need to enforce it, nobody would want to fight against it only to earn a counter-argument of "but biology!", because it would already be certain for us due to nature. But I (and practically all girls) don't think that way, and I'm made of nature! Also, early humans killed people whom they saw as territorial threats. Though we haven't changed drastically in genetics, we know not to do this. So it's absurd to look at us, members of civilized human society who use unnatural medicine and eat food that we did not hunt, and claim that sex is where we have to be uncontrollable slaves to biology. the funny thing is that the ones who actually dislike sluts more are other females So? I'm aware of this. I get mocked and shamed by being called a "skank" by both guys and girls, usually girls. But just because it's woman-against-woman doesn't make it right. Feminism is not directed specifically toward men, but toward society as a whole. again its mostly womens fault. in their attempt to reverse the roles and they compete with each other I don't have a witty simile for you here, but that's not right. As a woman, I don't see myself as a sexual being, meant to be judged by my attractiveness and usefulness to men. I don't see my beauty as the defining factor of my role, identity, or worth. Women in our society are viewed mainly for their looks, men being viewed for their character. That's not fair, and as a woman, I (and the rest of my half of the population) feel hurt by this mindset daily, being hypersexualized daily without my consent. This doesn't happen to men. How could this be "role reversal" by any way you interpet it? As for your disheartening conclusion, it's time we stop judging folks by how the "best" can "survive." We don't hunt. We have advanced medical strides that allow better living. Just because there tends to be a correlation with intelligence, strength, and (irrelevant) hunting doesn't mean that an entire half of a population should be limited to a categorizing role. Women and men should be viewed in an ethically fair way. We are all people, defined foremost by our agency and right to respect. They may tend to be different in the majority of cases, but making hasty assumptions about everyone in that group and judging them based solely on that is prejudice and stereotyping. We are all fundamentally equal and deserve to be viewed on equal terms.