Short Composition

For my challenge I was presented with the argument that equality would cause a problem rather than a solution because men and women relied on each other's differences to complement each other. I responded with three arguments, the first being that the social standard of a gender was defined thousands of years ago and it is wrongful to still believe that those archaic ideals are the correct ones. My second argument was loosely based on the movie that was assigned to me, which was "The Ugly Truth". My argument was that society takes these established gender standards and manifests them in the shape of stereotypes. These are then used to tell people how a "man" or a "woman" should behave.

As a result, people are brainwashed into believing men should be violent and reckless while women have to be passive and submissive. Both being completely unrealistic and incorrect, because we should be free to choose how we want to behave. Which brings me to my final argument which is how we don't need to rely on each other's differences because these differences don't exist! These differences are the result of gender stereotypes that have been fed to humans for generations. I believe that both men and women are fully capable of taking care of themselves without the need of the opposite sex, as both can do the same tasks with equal efficiency.

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