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  • This house believes that women domestic workers should reclaim the Cult of Domesticity

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    IF1: The Cult of Domesticity is a 19th-century Western value system among the upper and middle classes that framed women as morally superior, nurturing guardians of home and virtue. The idea revolved around the woman being the center of the family; she was considered "the light of the home", and thus “true women” succeed in the maintenance of the household, production of food, and childrearing.

    Santiago Ortega Cup II · Round 1 · 2025-06-07

  • This house believes that feminist movements in developing nations should deprioritise the strategy of advocating for carceral feminism.

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    Carceral Feminism describes an approach of increased policing, prosecution, and imprisonment as the primary solution to gendered violence. The recently growing ‘anti-carceral approach’ instead advocates for community-based solutions, survivor support, and reallocating resources for for education, social housing, and community security.

    South Asian Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-06-06

  • That we regret the creation of gender-specific championships and award categories in chess

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    In professional chess, competitive categories are often divided into open tournaments (which are formally open to all genders) and female-specific categories, including Women’s Grandmaster (WGM) titles and women-only championships. However, the Elo rating thresholds for female titles are lower than those for corresponding open titles (e.g. WGM requires a 2300 rating, while the standard Grandmaster title requires 2500).

    USU Pre-Australs 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-06-01

  • This house, as the feminist movement, would advocate for aggressive government intervention to counteract behaviors which the feminist movement determines are predominantly the outcome of adaptive preferences

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    Adaptive preferences are preferences formed in the unconscious response to oppression. They are formed when oppressed groups 'bend aspiration towards expectation' in light of their experiences of oppression. In the context of the women's liberation movement, examples of adaptive preferences occur on a spectrum ranging from choosing to pursue conventionally feminine careers to wearing the hijab to engaging in sex work. The degree to which choices are the result of adaptive preferences varies from context to context.

    Hanoi Debate Tournament 2025 - English Division · Semifinals · 2025-05-31

  • This house believes that award-giving bodies should recognize male and female talents under a singular award category.

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    In the film and television industry, award-giving bodies often recognize outstanding cast performances with awards such as Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Child Actor, and Best Child Actress, with "actors" referring to male talents and "actress" referring to female talents.

    Northern Luzon Intervarsity 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-31

  • This house would allow commercial surrogacy

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    Commercial surrogacy is a type of surrogacy arrangement where the surrogate mother is compensated for her services beyond reimbursement for medical expenses. Commercial Surrogacy is currently banned due to conflicting with religious scriptures and other ethical concerns.

    Northern Luzon Intervarsity 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-05-31

  • This house as the feminist movement would prioritize rejection of marriage rather than attempts to improve the quality of marriage. (Eg: normalisation of paternity leave, promoting balance of house chores, etc)

    Vistaar NITD-PD 24 · Round 3 · 2025-05-29

  • This house believes that the feminist movement should abandon the narrative "personal is political"

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    "Personal is Political" is a narrative that posits all personal experiences including family, friends, and the self are influenced by politics in some shape or form

    Vistaar NITD-PD 24 · Round 3 · 2025-05-29

  • This house regrets the rise of platforms such as OnlyFans

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    OnlyFans is an online platform where content creators can disseminate media content to subscribers who pay to be able to view their content. Subscribers pay a monthly fee to the content creator, 20% of which is retained by OnlyFans. The platform also includes other sources of revenue, such as pay- per-view and tips. It has recently become very popular in the sex work/pornogrpahy market, where many sex workers and erotic entertainers use the platform to sell their content. There has also been a corresponding rise in popularity of celebrities using the platform to sell sexual content.

    City Bank Presents BUP IV 2025 ( English) · Round 3 · 2025-05-26

  • This house believes that the integration of trans issues into the feminist movement's advocacy has done more harm than good to the strategy of the movement.

    Xavier Cup 11 · Round 1 · 2025-05-25

  • This house supports the villainization of hyper-femininity in media (e.g. Sharpay Evans from High School Musical, Regina George from Mean Girls)

    Xavier Cup 11 · Round 2 · 2025-05-25

  • (A) This house believes that the feminist movement should actively discourage women from engaging in feminine linguistic behaviour

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    (A) Feminine linguistic behaviour refers to linguistic patterns and styles that are considered feminine, including but not limited to, the use of hedges (words or phrases that softens statements such as 'I think' and 'Maybe'), the excessive use of typological symbols like exclamation points ! to express excitement, … to express hesitancy, and emoticons to express emotions.

    Taylor's Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-25