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against debate on women empowerment in english

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What are some Arguments against women empowerment (for a debate)?

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Allen Stairs

Answered Dec 10

Here’s one:

Women are robots whose brains are actually computers programmed by evil space invaders.

We shouldn’t empower evil space invaders.

Empowering women would indirectly empower evil space invaders.

Therefore, we shouldn’t permit the empowerment of women.

Now you’ll notice that if you accept the premises, the conclusion actually follows. The argument is valid, in the technical sense of logic: the premises imply the conclusion. But you’ll presumably also notice that the argument is, um, not very good. The first premises is just plain false.

And therein lies the problem. There are lots of arguments against empowering women. And it’s easy enough to construct arguments that are actually valid. But offhand it’s hard to imagine one that’s valid and has plausible premises. There are lots of traditional bad arguments. They assume that women are too weak, or too emotional, or that empowering women goes against the natural order of things, or against the divinely-ordained roles that God wants women to occupy. The first three of these are just plain false. As for the fourth, even if there is a god who doesn’t want women to do the things that women have proved themselves quite capable of doing (leading nations, running businesses, serving in the military…) all this would show is that this god isn’t worthy of anyone’s devotion.

Let’s say that an argument is reasonable if it doesn’t commit any fallacies, and appeals to premises that might very well be true. I assume it’s arguments of that sort that you’re looking for. The problem is that not every question has two reasonable sides. There’s no good argument for reinstating slavery. There’s no good argument for believing that the earth is flat. And it sure looks like there’s no good argument for denying women power and responsibility that we give to men.

Still, what if I’m on the debate team, and my side has been given the job of arguing against the empowerment of women? What would I do?

I’d adopt a different strategy. I’d concede up front that the usual arguments are bad. I’d also concede that if there are any goodarguments against empowering women, they’ll almost certainly be equally good against empowering men. And then I’d ask: are there any arguments against “empowering” people in general? What do we mean by “empowering”? What’s the underlying idea of power here? Are there any senses of “power” that make it doubtful that anyone should have power in that sense? My bet is that if you think about it, you’ll come up with some. And then I’d make my argument around those. I’d argue that in at least some sense of “empower,” we shouldn’t empower anyone, and so in particular, we shouldn’t empower women. But the point would be that insofar as this is true, it’s not because women are different than men. It’s because in the relevant respects, men and women are the same.

That’s one way to go. No doubt there are others. The key, I’d suggest, is to look for a twist. Look for arguments that don’t depend on the usual bad reasons but instead find a way to reframe the question. Doing that may lead you to interesting ideas that usually get overlooked.

Anyway, good luck!

Answer 2

Not only empowerment every act with an imbalance approach will have certain disadvantages. No matter whether it is men or women empowerment, anything that goes against the essence of development will have its own repercussions.

I strongly favor women empowerment; rather it’s their birth right. A woman born with all her rights and duties that make her an empowered by birth, all we have to do is to provide her with a compatible atmosphere and all possible facilities for smooth progress and development.

As said, in case of any exaggeration, imbalance approach or unhealthy trends, the women empowerment will have some disadvantages and they are:

A woman may not be able to discharge her natural responsibilities like nurturing a child, taking care of her husband etc.The society may notice an undeclared competition between the two genders.There may be an imbalance of roles to be played by men and women according to their potentials.Lack of precautionary measures may lead to cultivation of negativity, like jealousy, animosity, harassment etc.Excessive work and over involvement will exerts unhealthy impacts on physical and mental conditions.Rise in crime and sexual exploitation.Children’s moral standard and academic performance will have adverse effects.The family system will collapse.A society runs and progresses smoothly if the balance of roles, statuses and responsibilities of both the genders is maintained, if not, the inequality between the rights of genders may pose threats.