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Debatewise debate DEBATE: GIRLS ARE BETTER THAN BOYS

This is a topic which has challenged all the great philosophers, scientists, doctors, and great thinkers alike. Girls are better than boys.





Debatewise debateGIRLS ARE BETTER THAN BOYS


Females are better at science


FOR ONE FEMALES ARE SMARTER THAN BOYS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SIT IN CLASS AND LISTEN TO WHAT THE TEACHER SAYS THATS WHY THEY ARE BETTER AT SCIENCE.

Tske a lok at history most fo the famous people who did renowned things where males. Issac Newton, Thomas Edison, even Benjamin Franklin.


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Culture


Cultures throughout history have prescribed gender roles for both males and females. In some cases these are positive, and in other cases they are negative. For instance, boys are given trucks and electronics to play with teaching them those things which allow them to have a better chance at success in the "real-world". Girls on the other hand are given dolls and the culturally disguised monster the Easybake Oven.
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Females are raised from birth to be dutiful mothers and wives, to stay at home raising their children, and to put everyone else above their own needs and personal desires. Males are raised the complete opposite and are taught to aim for success regaurdless of who you need to step on to gain such goals and aspirations.
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Now, lets fast forward to adolence and first jobs. Because of the way males and females are raised, when they begin to enter the workforce they have prescribed expectations set by the culture. Girls are expected to do as they are told and the boys well, they are supposed to take charge and lead.
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Now, what happens if say a female tries to take charge? She is labeled as a bitch, a freak, an oddball amoung females and in a society dominated by males all of these are true. And for these reasons the myth that females are unequal endures for centuries and throughout all cultures in the ancient and even near past. However, this is rapidly becoming no longer the case I am proud to say ladies.
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In 30 years the University graduate rate has gone from ~10% females to 60% females world-wide. Our roles in politcs, the environment, and business continue to grow rivaling our male counterparts while female students continue to flourish in the generally regaurded "soft skills" of communication which are regaurded as more vital than "hard skills" like math to employers.
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The invidivudals who mentioned famous males in the past are off the mark. They have merely listed individuals who had the education women in those times were denied; the only way to fairly assess the sexes is compare them under a field where both sexes are given near equal opportunities. And in a world, the 21st century, where women are still reguarded as the weaker sex I have one single question. Why do we occupy a larger portion of intellectuals and emerging leaders than males?
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Its time to enter the 21st century boys. You may be stronger, physically faster, and able to do physical things that women could never do. However, when women have the control in any relationship, ignoreing males who use physical brute force to subdue their mates (which I think we can all agree proves the complete opposite of them being "superior" by any means). In thirty years females are closed a gap which in past days was believed to be so large it had to be the result of males being a superior sex.
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Business is a closed environment to women still. Therefore, it is the result of a cultural bias not a gender bias. The only field therefore where true comparisan between which sex is superior is in the field of intelligance which branches out into all other fields includeing business smarts and decisions. To this I restate my eariler statistic from Statistics Canada, that women hold a 60% to male 40% gradation rate from univiersites across the nation and the world.
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Now, whether this is true intellect I shall now briefly leave open to debate. However, I wish to add one final thing to consider: Regaurdless of intellectual capacity and whether or not males or females might be stronger the fact remains that females do graduate from universities more often. This means that either females are biologically smarter, cultural trends in the area of gender has shifted giving females a greater sense of determination and self-esteem, or is it simply our biological personalities as women which cause us to strive for success more than males in a new era and century?
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In conclusion, males did dominate the sexual arena in the past. Although, the gap is rapidly closeing and women are showing more and more what they can accomplish with encouragement. In the area of intellect we have a higher graduation (and GPA) rate at the university level, and we also have a higher rate of high school graduation proving either our superior intellects or our superior dedicate take your pick. We control relationships; by this I mean if a women wishes to have a family she can at will whereas if a male does he must first find a female who consents to choosing him as her mate.
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Biological or cultural? I remain undecided. Although the facts do remain that females hold the advantage in the only two areas in which fair comparisan can be made ignoreing the obvious biological differances "Girls are better because they can have babies…" and "Boys are better because they are phsically stronger and taller…" and debates like these. What the future will hold? Who knows, although I am certian that with encouragement and determination females in the near and distance future will begin to surpass the greatest minds in history, male or not, and earn a rightful postition as equals or even the superior sex because it is clearly not the case that we are the weaker sex after having disclosed all these debates.
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That is all.
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In all cultures throughout the ages men have been seen as more dominant and so take most leadership roles. I would argue that every culture that has ever existed cannot be wrong.
Also, while there have been great male and female artists (Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo), males have always had more success. The great cultural figures of our society have always been male. Thus it would be impossible to declare that women are better.
Also, can you find any cultural female figures that top these men:
- Michelangelo
- Rembrandt
- Picasso
- da Vinci
- Van Gogh
- Shakespeare
- Mozart
- Beethoven
...?


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Rebuttal to "Men, on the other hand allow cold methodology and practicality too much prevelance. "


If men are so cool and collected, why are the majority of violent (passionate) crimes committed by men?
Do you have data to back your claim up? What about violent crimes committed against other men?

Irrational women drive men into a violent acts by the use of irrational arguments that drive men over the edge.
Statistics show that women use violence more than men, if you count cases which didn’t lead to any injury. However, it’s the thought that counts.


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Females are smarter


Females are just smarter than boys in every way. They get better examination results at school. They have emotional as well as academic intellegence and are far superior to men at networking, interacting with people and negotiating.
THEY CAN SIT IN CLASS IN PAY MORE ATTENTION THAN BOYS. THE BOYS BE IN CLASS PLAYING, LAUGHING, AND BLOWING SPIT BUBBLES WHICH IS SO NASTY AND IMATURE!!!!!!!!!

That is a hasty generalization. I bet there are areas that you (the person man or woman who made the comment to my left) don’t know half as much about as I would… not because I’m a man, and you (might be) a woman but because I just have experienced that part of life that you haven’t. Based on that kind of reasoning a 12 year old girl would know more than a 60 year old man in all areas of life! I wonder if she knows about how to maintain a healthy prostate… I think women want to think they know everything because then they feel like they are in control in a society where sometimes they feel oppressed. But the system is changing and there is no need for these kind of generalising arguments any more. There are plenty of very smart men and very smart women, but the opposite is the case for both sides as well.
Statistics have showed that men have (in average) 5 points higher IQ. Scientific studies (http://www.livescience.com/health/060908_brainy_men.html) have shown that men are smarter than women.


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Females are better students


Females have been proven to obtain better grades than males, especially in single sex schools where there are no men to distract them!
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I’d love for the esteemed male who wrote "Also, in schools where girls get higher grades, it could be because they suck up to the teacher or because the teacher just likes girls better than boys. At universities (where men are better) such reasons are less trustworthy." to provide some evident to support this outlandish and entirely inaccurate claim.
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As stated above, females actually perform better then males by nearly 10% in a university setting. That is from the Statistics Canada website, and the American Institute of Higher Learning. Girls perform better for a variety of reasons, mostly due to problems in education system which favour our style of learning so I don’t consider it a pro or con for grades.
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However, females do have more to deal with at school beyond grades than males. Specifically in high school, as was also mentioned by the esteemed unknown male to the right, who claimed girls only achieve through sucking up. News flash: Sexisim occures more oftenly against, as opposed to for females, so "because the teacher just likes girls better than boys" kind of proves our point better I would imagine?
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Secondly, in terms to the female distraction comment I will also agree as it has been documented by psychologists that for females ages 10-17 is the more stressful. For males it is ages 8-15. High school is typically 14-18 so females cover a wider area and therefore have more stress beyond school.
- What might these stresses be? Nature, Culture, and Family.
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Lastly, in terms of the question "females are better students" we are in the sense that we are superior in some areas and in others we are not. Males are superior in some areas and in others they are not. It balances out quite nicely with the soft skills favouring females, and hard skills favouring males. That said in terms of examinations, which in all forms MC, SA, LA favour female learning styles through reading or writing. This is an impossible question to answer therefore, however it is one of the few which cannot be determined by such methods.
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~Farewell

It is true that female students tend to get better results in secondary (high school) education. However, once students reach university level, male students tend to do better and in British universities statistics have shown that men gain a far higher number of first class degrees than women. The majority of senior academic posts are also held by men.
Also, in schools where girls get higher grades, it could be because they suck up to the teacher or because the teacher just likes girls better than boys. At universities (where men are better) such reasons are less trustworthy.


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Men are governed by their libidos, which makes them do stupid things.


Socrates claimed that the influence of the male libido was like being ‘chained to a madman.’ You only have to go into any nightclub on a Friday to see that the male sex drive has a severe effect on their judgement… Even older, seemingly intelligent males can lose their head and act stupidly when there is the possibility of sex involved. Just look at Bill Clinton…

Women are just as susceptible to sexual desire as men, and just as likely to do silly things because of it. In that same club on a Friday night you’re sure to see women degrading themselves in revealing outfits and acting like idiots to get male attention. Women are even worse than men because they need sexual attention in order to validate themselves, not just for the physical pleasure of sex. The example of the schoolteacher who was convicted for sleeping with her underage pupil seems to prove that women are just as prone to letting their desires run away with them when they should know better.


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Statistics


Statistics prove that girls do better than boys at every exam level
yes I am a boy and I believe this . But that doesn’t actually means that they are interested on that subject . For a example see kernel programming . It was very fair that if I say like this . Kernel programmers are most of interested by the boys . Because the boys know how to fix something as well as how to break something( not about breaking the relationships talking about machines , computers and toys ). But the girls are not likes to loos the challenge of that . So they also score good marks on that subjects .
Yes I believe this . Very true.2

Not at every level: in many universities men perform significantly better than women and they are more prominent in the upper levels of academia.
And statistics show us that the 2 absolutely best students in every class is a boy.


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Without girls, there would be no boys


the stupid point on the right is so i dont know, maybe ovious?! every body knows we all come from girls!!!!!!!!!! who caried you for 9 mons.? girls! and where do you drink your milk? girl’s breast!(when a baby). being a boy not right for me. coz boys like boys is gay!! ya sure SPERM + EGG = FERTILIZATION. but where does fertilization occurs? in the fallopian tube! and where it is located? oh yeah, in a womans body! so go drink beer and go to the club! coz whatever you do, GIRLS are better than BOYS!!!!
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The above point is very flawed. This is a neutral point. The person making this point is not really helping the case of the girls!
I agree with what the point to the right says

The point made on the left is quite amusing :). Hmmm lets go back to the basics shall we? Sperm + Egg = Fertilization. Sperm come from males. Eggs come from females. Without either, no fertilization can take place i.e. no baby can be made.
Therefore both females AND males are necessary for the continued existence of humanity. This is clearly a neutral argument. Anyone who claims "without girls, there would be no boys" or "without boys, there would be no girls" is merely making a ignorant statement.


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