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  • CON

    This critical strategy first emerged within the feminist...

    Feminism represents a small, privileged constituency of middle-class white women, who can afford to ...

    This critical strategy first emerged within the feminist movement itself, and was immediately recognised within the movement as a serious problem - which suggests that it should be aimed at certain feminists rather than at feminism as a whole. It points to the need for feminism to be a wider movement against inequality wherever it is found, rather than suggesting that it is no longer necessary.

    • https://debatewise.org/debates/2701-feminism/
    • score
      BM25 score: 16.98
      feminism: 16.98
      conclusion: 4.96 (boost 1.50, idf 5.97, tfNorm 0.55)
      premises: 10.01 (idf 5.90, tfNorm 1.70)
      sourceText: 2.00 (boost 0.20, idf 4.68, tfNorm 2.14)
  • PRO

    If anything, cosmetic surgery is the latest phenomenon in...

    To attempt to dress cosmetic surgery in the flag of feminism is absurd.

    To attempt to dress cosmetic surgery in the flag of feminism is absurd. If anything, cosmetic surgery is the latest phenomenon in the long history of the objectification of women in society. Women are driven to meet male standards of beauty, exaggerating their shape and seeking to remain youthful lest their partner leave them for (often literally) a younger model. Today many operations are arranged by male partners rather than by the women themselves. Cosmetically-enhanced celebrities are redefining definitions of attractiveness for new generations, leading young girls who would have been considered naturally beautiful in past decades to see themselves as plain and to seek their own surgical remedies.

  • PRO

    By focusing on women and their problems, feminism fails...

    Men have big problems too. By focusing on women and their problems, feminism fails to recognise tha...

    Men have big problems too. By focusing on women and their problems, feminism fails to recognise that there are inequality issues in which men are the victims. For example: boys are falling behind girls in academic achievement; far less money is spent on combating ‘male’ than ‘female’ diseases (the difference between the amount of research into breast cancer and prostate cancer is a striking example); single fathers are discriminated against over child custody and child support; fear of being accused of sexism is so widespread that it often leads to unfair discrimination against men. These can only be tackled by recognising that feminism has gone too far.

    • https://debatewise.org/debates/2701-feminism/
    • score
      BM25 score: 16.64
      feminism: 16.64
      conclusion: 4.96 (boost 1.50, idf 5.97, tfNorm 0.55)
      premises: 9.68 (idf 5.90, tfNorm 1.64)
      sourceText: 2.00 (boost 0.20, idf 4.68, tfNorm 2.14)
  • CON

    First, many of the ways in which men suffer inequality...

    Men have big problems too. By focusing on women and their problems, feminism fails to recognise tha...

    There are two responses to this. First, many of the ways in which men suffer inequality are relatively minor when compared to the ongoing subordination of women in many areas of private and public life such as pay, childcare and sexuality. Second, where such inequality does exist, First, many of the ways in which men suffer inequality are relatively minor when compared to the ongoing subordination of women in many areas of private and public life such as pay, childcare and sexuality. Second, where such inequality does exist, feminism possesses the resources to offer a distinctive and useful critique of the causes and consequences of sexual inequality, whether it is men or women who suffer as a result - men and women should be joining forces to offer feminist responses to discrimination, not blaming feminism where men suffer.

    • https://debatewise.org/debates/2701-feminism/
    • score
      BM25 score: 16.64
      feminism: 16.64
      conclusion: 4.96 (boost 1.50, idf 5.97, tfNorm 0.55)
      premises: 9.68 (idf 5.90, tfNorm 1.64)
      sourceText: 2.00 (boost 0.20, idf 4.68, tfNorm 2.14)
  • PRO

    Feminism represents a small, privileged constituency of...

    Feminism represents a small, privileged constituency of middle-class white women, who can afford to ...

    Feminism represents a small, privileged constituency of middle-class white women, who can afford to worry about relatively insignificant issues like executive pay and body image; meanwhile the problems suffered by women across the world, such as poverty, hunger and racism (none of which are exclusively female problems) are ignored.

    • https://debatewise.org/debates/2701-feminism/
    • score
      BM25 score: 15.69
      feminism: 15.69
      conclusion: 4.96 (boost 1.50, idf 5.97, tfNorm 0.55)
      premises: 8.73 (idf 5.90, tfNorm 1.48)
      sourceText: 2.00 (boost 0.20, idf 4.68, tfNorm 2.14)