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I'm a lady, and I've found that the internet- INCLUDING sites that one might expect to be filled with intelligent, even enlightened folk, like CreateDebate- is filled with ridiculous amounts of sexism. There are debates about conservatives "sleeping with liberals women", and it's incredibly common to wind up in debates where your opinion is labled as unworthy becasue of your gender.
Opinion?
I'm sure that everyone has noticed the crazy sexism debates going around.
Kinda and I have been having an extended debate over what qualifies as sexism. I (Xander) think that, though people are inherently different, differences between groups are greater than those between groups. Kinda is more for a traditional view with women being more useful in the household (I'm probably butchering his argument and will change this ASAP).
My argument, by the way, is a wall-post that ended up being too long.
So, who do you agree with? Or, better yet, what's your version?
The SAT was intended to measure aptitude. However, I think it mostly measures how well you take the SAT.
Evidence: You can study for the SAT. You cannot magically gain more "aptitude".
I really don't like it when people downvote arguments without saying anything, or if they do it because their opinion differs from yours. I think that downvotes are for very offensive or very badly written. I guess it's alright if you really, really don't agree, but, as a courtesy, please leave a "dispute"? Or maybe I'm the only one it bothers.
I was recently reading a debate about drug use, and someone commented on pot smokers being pushy, I was surprised, because I've never had this experience. I've been offered drugs and alcohol, and once was pressured to drink (ineffectively). Most of my high school friends smoked or drank, and I spent a lot of time around drugs, illicit and legal, and I've never had a problem. i don't know if it was the people I was with, my personality (which is strong enough that most people don't bother with trying to change me), or if it was just the norm (which I assumed).
So, have you had problems with peer pressure? Is it as big a deal as those videos you see in elementary school?
Also, as my favorite shirt says: Resist peer pressure- All the cool kids are doing it.
In my state, the age of consent (when one can legaly consent to having sex withsomeone who does not hold power over them [teachers, prison wardens, etc.]) is sixteen; in other states it is seventeen or eighteen. In my state having sex with one under sixteen that one is no more than four years older than is only a misdemenor, rather than a felony. Is this a good system? Should there be a national system?
Modern farming with pesticides, fertilizers, genetically modified crops, and modern farming equipment have allowed for great leaps in the production of food. Most societal advancements closely follow agricultural developments and discovery; note the Neolithic Revolution and the "Green Revolution". However, there has been a recent trend in the upper and middle classes of wealthy nations to return to organic farming.
Is this wrong morally, economically, or environmentally?