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  • This house, as a prominent female business or political leader, when promoted in a "Glass Cliff" situation, will choose to accept the position

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    Glass Cliff refers to a phenomenon wherein women tend to be promoted to positions of power during times of crisis or downturn. Examples of this include Marissa Meyer for Yahoo, Ellen Pao for Reddit, and Theresa May when she was elected as Prime Minister of the UK.

    SMU Hammers 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-05-10

  • This house would go on the Jubilee video as opposed to the established left-leaning Youtube channel.

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    Jubilee is a YouTube channel with ~10 million subscribers and over 4 billion views. They create videos where people discuss politics, social issues, relationships, stereotypes, and identity. According to the founder, the company is politically neutral and hires producers and editors with a variety of viewpoints. They have a series called “Middle Ground,” where two opposing sides respond to prompts provided by Jubilee, debating on if they agree or disagree. Established left-leaning YouTube channels include creators like Hasan Piker, ContraPoints, and oliSUNvia which each have around 1–2 million subscribers and produce content in formats such as video essays, livestreams, interviews, and reaction videos. Their content includes topics like social justice, class inequality, LGBTQ+ rights, critiques of right-wing extremism, and other progressive social issues. You are a feminist with an online following of 100,000. You are invited to a video entitled: “Feminist vs. Antifeminist: Can they make middle ground?” by Jubilee. You are also given the offer to make a guest appearance on an established left-leaning YouTube channel.

    Ridge 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-09

  • This House Regrets the UEFA requirement

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    In 2022, UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) announced a new licensing requirement. This requirement demands that all clubs who wish to be eligible to play in European football leagues (e.g. Champions League, Europa League or Conference League) must also operate an elite women's team. This forced many clubs to either establish completely new women's teams or to buy up and rename existing women's teams.

    Baltic IV 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-03

  • This house opposes the popularity of the "green tea bitch" trope in media.

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    The "green tea bitch" trope refers to female characters who actively work hard to come across as innocent and kind, but are actually intelligent & calculating schemers. (i.e Rashta in the Remarried Empress, Jung Soomin in Marry My Husband, Alison in Pretty Little Liars, Regina George in Mean Girls, Georgia in Ginny and Georgia)

    The 2nd Indonesia Wom*n and Gender Minorities: Asian Parli. · Round 1 · 2025-05-03

  • This House believes that non-gendered research in the field of medicine and healthcare has brought more harm than good

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    "Non-gendered" research refers to research where the subject pool is chosen without regard or record of gender identity, and how diseases and/or drugs may impact people with different genders. Examples of gendered research are autoimmune disorders, alzheimers, certain cancers. Examples of non-gendered research include AIDS, certain generic drugs, etc.

    The 2nd Indonesia Wom*n and Gender Minorities: Asian Parli. · Round 3 · 2025-05-03

  • This house opposes the use of cultural relativism in defence of practices that discriminate against women

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    Cultural relativism refers to assessing the moral value of an act relative to the norms and standards of its own culture. Cultural relativism is often used in defense of practices seen as immoral or reprehensible by outsiders, e.g. arranged marriages are morally acceptable in some South Asian countries due to its historical and cultural significance, but is frowned upon elsewhere.

    Malaysia Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-05-02

  • This house, as FIDE, would abolish gender-specific chess titles

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    FIDE is the world governing body for chess, overseeing rules, rankings, and titles like Grandmaster. While open titles have no gender restrictions, FIDE also awards exclusive titles to women, such as Woman Grandmaster (WGM), which require a lower ELO rating than their open counterparts.

    49th Mindanao Parliamentary Debate Championship · Round 1 · 2025-04-26

  • This house supports the recent rise in prominent media that depicts male criminals through the Broken Man narrative (e.g. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, Monster: The Jeffery Dhamer Story, Adolescence, 13 Reasons Why)

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    The Broken Man is the fourth episode of the Netflix miniseries the Menendez brothers, covering the decision of its titular characters to murder their parents. The Broken man serves to explain the brothers' motivation to murder their parents through their account of the family's history and their upbringing. The episode's narrative is that social expectations around masculinity are the root of Brothers' evil: they are to blame for their father's temper and abuse, the brothers' shame and aversion to asking for help, and their assumption that violence is their best response.

    Ottawa Round Robin 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-04-26

  • This house, as the feminist movement, supports the actions of the Gulabi Gang

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    The Gulabi Gang is a women-led vigilante group based in India. The group is dedicated to empowering women of all social classes and protecting them from domestic violence, sexual violence, and oppression. Notably, the group uses both non-violent (protests and demonstrations) and violent (threat, intimidation, use of weapons) tactics to combat oppressors.

    49th Mindanao Parliamentary Debate Championship · Round 2 · 2025-04-26

  • That the feminist movement should adopt the narrative that happiness is hedonic rather than eudaimonic.

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    Hedonic happiness is the belief that happiness comes from pleasure and self- indulgence, following current desires and maximising immediate enjoyment. Eudaimonic happiness is the belief that happiness comes from the pursuit of goals and having a clear purpose. 

    Melbourne Easters 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-04-21