#debate help

Please anyone help

We drew the short straw and are debating why we don’t need feminism in the uk lol

I’m the team captain and have to do the intro and conclusion as well as a 15 min speech for a separate thing in school the day before the debate. When we are back to school I have three days to write the whole debate and speech (I’m trying to do it now tho)

Our main points are 1) legally equal and social change can’t be enforced by a organisation 2) feminists in the uk should focus on other issues worldwide lol

As I said, this is just the intro so everything will be explained and expanded on later :)

“Hello everyone, I am going to be opening today’s debate, defending the statement “feminism is no longer needed in the uk”.

While presumptions about what our arguments may be could be that we could come off as jaded or rude, we have tried our best to offer the best debate we can.

If men and women are equal under law, what more can the feminist moment aim to achieve in the uk?

Legally speaking since the 70’s, men and women are equal under the law. The only thing the feminist movement could aim to change would be social behaviour. However, it could be argued this could cause the opposite reaction as many could feel as though the movement was trying to infringe into personal freedoms.

Our suggestion to counteract this would be to focus the movements power elsewhere, specifically nations in which girls are shunned and repressed just for their gender.

Under harsh regimes, girls are targeted worldwide. Whether it’s being banned from schools or being arrested for their clothing, the treatment of women is unacceptable.

Do you care about your ranks in this tournament? Because this will fundamentally change what you should do

If you don’t care about your ranks:

PO. If you don’t know how to PO, have someone teach you and learn quickly. This helps both if you care and don’t care. (I’ll post a guide for PO-ing later)

Crystal. Crystalling is when you summarize all the arguements in a round and argue why your side overall wins the debate. You need to have really good flow and really good fluency/good bs-ing skills because you CANNOT prepare a crystal in advance

Hope and pray a teammate won’t be in your chamber and steal their speech

Possibly, don’t speak on a bill. If it’ll do you better to give no speech than a bad speech (depends on your definition of bad), then don’t speak. It sucks, but if you’re like me, it’s because you’re burnt out

If you care about your ranks:

PO. Same as what I said before- and a lot of judges rank POs very highly. Just make sure what you know what you’re doing, and try to have a gavel beforehand, otherwise you look very unprepared

Try and get speeches from other people. It’s embarrassing, I know, but if they’re not in your chamber then it’s up for grabs if you ask me

Crystal. I’m putting this at the bottom, because as I said- it’s hard even if you take good flow, because you need to have good fluency & improv skills. If you can pull one off, go for it. Crystal your every speech, but for someone who’s not, I’d recommend to try something else

Stay up late & wake up early. I lied, this is the bottom, because IMO, to preform well, you need good sleep, and I can’t recommend this in good faith. But if you can’t PO, crystal, or get speeches from other people, you don’t really have any other choice. And I’ll be honest, it sucks. If you need help with researching, send me a dm and your timeframe and I’ll see what I can do if I see it in time. Just… take care of yourself.

A lot of arguments don’t end because someone “lost.” They end because someone drops a category word: harmful, hateful, unsafe. The conversation gets reclassified as an emergency, and suddenly you are no longer debating a claim. You are defending your right to be in the room. If you’ve felt this happening more often lately, you’re not imagining it. The move is simple: treat disagreement as injury,…

Today we do some readings!! 🌻🌞🍯💫🌟✨

We met our physical science teacher for this sem. Surprisingly IT WASN’T CHILL AT ALL! Next meeting we already have a scheduled recitation, quiz, and debate—yES SUSAN, DEBATE !!!

Anyway, the debate’s about Big Bang (like whether it started as an explosion or an expansion). Our group picked the explosion side. Ya girl needs help, mind to coach me with some ideas?

ps: ideas can be about big bang or debating in general. i suck at debating. literally feeling like crying everytime i need to raise a point.