Tournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Fremont HG | Judge: Jackson Hanna
Ray in 1997
A. E. Ray "The Shame of it: gender-based terrorism in the former Yugoslavia and the failure of international human rights law to comprehend the injuries." The American University Law Review. Vol 46.
In order to reach all of the violence perpetrated against the women of the former
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~ political struggle ~over female subordination~ is women’s bodies." 7 2
Civil society is structured to maintain a patriarchal system in which women and their rage are silenced. The status quo exists to retain power structures while punishing marginalized groups.
Lonzano-Reich 26 Cloud 9
Nina M. and Dana, 4/30/2009. Nina M. Lozano-Reich, Ph.D. is a former Carnegie Fellow and an Associate Professor in the Communication Studies Department, at Loyola Marymount University. Dana L. Cloud is a professor of communication studies at Syracuse University. "The Uncivil Tongue: Invitational Rhetoric and the Problem of Inequality," Western Journal of Communication. KD
Bone et al. acknowledge that historically, societal standards of decorum have often¶
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goals of invitational¶ rhetoric, but also in combating systems of oppression.
Historically, dominant groups have repeatedly enacted civilizing strategies to effectively¶ silence and punish
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of a politics of civility that has been proven to leave those already.
Griffin and Raider (Women in High School Debate. J. Cinder Griffin and Holly Jane Raider 1989 – "Punishment Paradigms : Pros and Cons" http://groups.wfu.edu/debate/MiscSites/DRGArticles/Griffin26Raider1989PunishmentPar.htm)
Debate, unlike athletics, does not require physical skills which might restrict the participation
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of success are lower, and the pressures placed upon them are higher.
Aj Yi, Alyssa Nie, 10-20-2020, "An Empirical Study of Gender Differences in Competitive High School Debate," No Publication, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3715996
Gender differences in competitive environments have been studied extensively; however, the majority of
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to male debaters from the same school reduces attrition rates of female debaters.
Unlike the other competitive formats commonly researched, debate is a subjective activity where the
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biases against female debaters may be implicitly held by judges of all genders.
Halberstam, 1993
~Jack/Judith Halberstam, Imagined Violence/Queer Violence: Representation, Rage, and Resistance Reviewed work(s): Source: Social Text, No. 37, A Special Section Edited by Anne McClintock Explores the Sex Trade (Winter, 1993), pp. 187-201~
The eruption of rebellion in the streets of L.A. and its representations
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challenge white powerful heterosexual masculinity and create a cultural coalition of postmodern terror.
This criticism isn’t just of society generally, it’s a direct failure of the space we are in that needs to be deconstructed and raged against. Fang 22
Abigail Fang, 4-9-2022, "Debating debate practices: Sexual harassment in debate," Northwood Howler, https://thehowleronline.org/4651/viewpoint/debating-debate-practices-sexual-harassment-in-debate/
However, debate has evolved to form its own unique traditions and norms as well
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gaslighting, manipulation and more that happen both inside and outside of tournaments.
Even worse, adults can and often do contribute to such abuse rather than preventing
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for asking for sexually explicit photographs from teenage boys around the country.
However, while such awareness is encouraging, adults in charge of competitions need to
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judge training for its judges and anti-harassment training for its employees.
Ahmed in 10
Sara Ahmed. "Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects). The Barnard Center for Research on Women – the Scholar and Feminist Online. Issue 8.3. Summer 2010.
To be unseated by the table of happiness might be to threaten not simply that
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a killjoy can be a knowledge project, a world-making project.
Rage is critical to the extinction of patriarchy – it provides women agency in challenging power and materially grounds our resistance.
Kaplow in 1973
Susi Kaplow. "Getting Angry" Radical Feminism. 1973.
Two scenarios: An angry man: someone has infringed on his rights, gone
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personal to the political and becomes a force for shaping our new destiny.
Rage works. I have been working on a project to stop sexual harassment at my school, to change the rules and systems and to increase education. Nobody listened. The school ignored me until I got angry.
Expressing dissent publicly in my English classes, in front of administrators and in the hallways forced the school to listen and freed other women of the shackles of silence. I fought. I was angry and now I have designated time to work on changing the policies and increasing education.
At least once a week for the past year and a half a woman at my school has come to me to talk about experiences of sexual violence because I was outspoken about the issue. Breaking the norm is necessary for setting women free and being angry. Debate is an especially male dominated space and needs to deconstruct this violence before anything in the round can be truly evaluated. I urge you to affirm.
Role of the ballot and judge come before theory – (a) determines what we should read in debate which constrains things like theory and (b) controls the strongest internal link to inclusion – theory forces debate into abstract rules to escape hard conversations which creates an exclusionary debate space where only wealthy theory debaters can participate, and accessibility is a multiplier, your impacts don’t matter if they only apply to a privileged elite. And (c) it determines what it means to be the better debater, which means it contextualizes what fairness is.
Don’t buy interps about the aff being bound to the resolution, two reasons
debate should widen our thinking, especially on critical issues. Wider range of types of arguments are good. Shanahan 93
William Shanahan (Ft. Hays State University, Kansas) "kritik of thinking" Debater’s Research Guide, Health Care Policy, 1993 http://groups.wfu.edu/debate/MiscSites/DRGArticles/Shanahan1993HealthCare.htm**