Tournament: NDT | Round: 6 | Opponent: Emory DK | Judge:
He is ashamed of his own body, so he delegitimizes the claims of women by continually drawing attention to their bodies simultaneously pretending that bodies don’t matter.  It’s time to show that the emperor has no clothes, and that his naked body is pathetic.

Deem 96 Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.511-513
Feminists writing today … ” in the public (Berlant 1988:244; see also Lesage 1988).

Debate is sexist against women – male critics are likely to evaluate the claims from men stronger than those from women. 

Rogers 97 Jack, Director of Forensics at UT Tyler, “A Community of Equals, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate 18, p.2-3
As a collective, we ….  the more accurate perception.
He Continues…
Rogers 97 Jack, Director of Forensics at UT Tyler, “A Community of Equals, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate 18, p.6-7
Another possible ….. cultural group say or do.
He Continues…
Rogers 97 Jack, Director of Forensics at UT Tyler, “A Community of Equals, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate 18, p.18-9
The impacts of this research ….. and dedicate ourselves to reversing the trend.

Maybe you think this evidence is old and that things have changed.  You’d be wrong.  Decades of misogyny have gone by and nothing has changed.

Dhillon and Larson 12 Kiranjeet and April, “Biological Sex as a Predictor of Competitive Success in Intercollegiate Forensics,” National Forensic Journal, p.118
Despite encouragement …..  limitations and future research.
They continue…
Dhillon and Larson 12 Kiranjeet and April, “Biological Sex as a Predictor of Competitive Success in Intercollegiate Forensics,” National Forensic Journal, p.119-20
It should be noted that …. debate than individual events.
They continue…
Dhillon and Larson 12 Kiranjeet and April, “Biological Sex as a Predictor of Competitive Success in Intercollegiate Forensics,” National Forensic Journal, p.134
Despite these rewards, the …. gendered voice in the community.

The white male is the norm in debate, placing women and minorities in a double-bind: either act aggressively and be labeled a “bitch” or be too passive and receive less competitive recognition.

Eisenberg 12 Stephanie, “Speaking from the Margins: Negotiating barriers to women’s participation and success in policy debate” San Francisco State. p.13
It seems as though not …. in exchange for competitive¶ success.

Hetero men in debate do not value women in debate for anything more than their bodies because men can’t help but give way to their sexual urges. They can’t handle women who speak faster, debate better, and gasp don’t want to fuck them. 

Stepp 01 Pamela, “Sexual Harassment in Communication Extra-Curricular Activities,” Communication Education 50.1, p.42-4
To better understand these …. gay community. (NFA male competitor)
She Continues…
Stepp 01 Pamela, “Sexual Harassment in Communication Extra-Curricular Activities,” Communication Education 50.1, p.45
In this study gender differences were greatest in intercollegiate debate. Even when results were compared to other similar higher education studies, harassment was greater in the debate organizations. The organizational structure theory (Tangri et al., 1982) indicates that sexual harassment will occur when the sex ratio is skewed, when there is a large power differential, when women are viewed as outsiders in a male-dominated environment, and when weekend work is required. Intercollegiate debate functions in an argument culture where women are traditionally unaccepted and few in numbers. Even though women are trained with men to use language to intimidate in debate, those in power may view the women as too competitive. Since many of the women who do participate in debate are beginners and placed in the novice division, they have less organizational power than varsity debaters who are mostly men. The power differential between men and women also may be highlighted because the majority of coaches are men (Stepp, 1997). Overall, based on both the survey results and the written experiences, this study concludes that gender harassment and seductive behavior is common in the forensics community. The reported sexual harassment incidents highlight the intensity of the problem. Even though the percentages of quid pro quo sexual harassment were low, there were still 18 examples of such behavior reported. Although sexual bribery, coercion, and imposition are not as widespread as a hostile environment there were still reports of these kinds of harassment as well.

We must employ a hyper-corporealized rhetoric that saturates the male body in the sewer of its own physicality.

Deem 2009, edited for ableist language Melissa, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, University of Iowa “Stranger sociability, public hope, and the limits of political transformation” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 88:4, P447-448
As will be clear from my …. cramped space of the minority. 

Womens speech is relegated to the genre of the nag – preventing them from accessing the public sphere 

Deem 96 Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.513-515
Preceding Bobbitt, the Anita …. -as a mode of containment-dangerous.

The 1AC is a public statement contesting the hegemonic structures of deliberation that marginalize marked bodies – true deliberation is impossible unless the embodiment of the speakers is directly confronted

Adams 06 Elliott, “AMERICAN FEMINIST MANIFESTOS AND THE RHETORIC OF WHITENESS” Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University Pg 20-22

While it may be ….  the public sphere to laws or policies

Tournament: D4 | Round: 2 | Opponent: Iowa CS | Judge: DCH, Short, Woodward
We read a performance that splices parts of the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas and the Black Woman's Manifesto by the Third World Women's Alliance ... it also incorporates things we have written.

Our performance of the SCUM manifesto by Valerie Solanas and the Black Woman’s Manifesto by The Third World Women’s Alliance shows how the public sphere has been constructed to exclude minority bodies.  The bourgeois, white, abled, heterosexual male has become an abstract figure, deemed the ideal citizen-subject of the public sphere. This process of abstraction creates a logic of domination whereby bodies marked with difference are devalued
Melissa Deem 2002 *Edited for ableist rhetoric (Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, University of Iowa “Stranger sociability, public hope, and the limits of political transformation” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 88:4, P449-451)  
Through rhetorics of disincorporation, both the subject who comes to normative status and the
AND
which dominant norms of stranger-relationality posit strangerhood and intimacy as opposites.

America’s defeat in the Vietnam War ruptured military masculinity. The wounded and dead soldiers forced attention to the embodied male subject. However, targeted killing salvaged the white, heterosexual, male body by purging its imperfections.  
Cristina Masters 2005 (professor in The Centre for International and Security Studies at York University “Bodies of Technology: Cyborg Soldier and Militarized Masculinities” International Feminist Journal of Politics 7:1 March 2005 p. 119-120)
Techno-militarized masculinity has come to symbolize the model American soldier, represented in
AND
Vietnam essentially represented a failure to master the body, irrationality and emotion.

Social inequality makes debate impossible – unconscious and informal mechanisms of exclusion mean that participants aren’t on an even playing field.  Even when minoritarian subjects do speak, they are not heard – addressing this social inequality is a prerequisite for further deliberation.
Fraser 90 *Edited for ableist rhetoric Nancy, Prof of Political and Social Science at the New School, “Rethinking the Public Sphere,” Social Text 25/26, p.63-65
Habermas's account of the bourgeois conception of the public sphere stresses its claim to be
AND
inequality infects formally inclusive existing public spheres and taints discursive interaction within them.

Women are expected to live with and desire those who traditionally oppress us. Public testimony is a method for making the bodily experience of being a woman known, but under that paradigm feminine speech becomes the incessant nag, producing a powerless text that either forces women to speak and be made powerless or voluntarily fall silent. Hyperembodying the male is key to reclaiming the complaint.
Deem 96 *Edited for ableist rhetoric Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.513-515
The fascination of the national political imaginary with the transgressive practices of women that render
AND
while simultaneously making the complaint-as a mode of containment-dangerous.

The scatological rhetoric of the manifesto is necessary to cut through the bullshit.  It is indecorous and excessive and therefore pushes the white body and male body out into the open.  This is the only way to force the majoritarian subject to feel the violence that minority groups traditionally suffer within the dominant landscape.
Deem 96 *Edited for ableist rhetoric Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.524-5
For the purpose of my reading, I situate the SCUM Manifesto, a minor
AND
cunning of the patriarchal public sphere erected on the pathology of heterosexual desire.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Baylor SW | Judge: Darren Elliot

Life in the west is defined against the figure of the Muslim – The Muslim is seen as the embodiment of death as such, excluded from the ethical-political community

Goldberg 09 David, Prof of Comparative Lit at UC-Irvine, The Threat of Race, p. 163-8

The figure of the Muslim, alongside ... self not possible for the beast, or for the beastly in us. 

He continues…

Goldberg 09 David, Prof of Comparative Lit at UC-Irvine, The Threat of Race, p. 175-7

The shift in Europe’s dominant fixation ... American foreign adventure, the “new world,” in Bush braggadocio.

One manifestation of this exclusion is the use of material witness laws to indefinitely detain Muslims in the so-called “War on Terror”

Levenson 02 Laurie, “Detention, Material Witnesses and the War on Terrorism,” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 35, p.1217-24

The War on Terrorism has capitalized on ... them to do, rather than what it can prove they have done.

Use of the material witness statute effectively guts ANY limitation on the arrest power of the federal government by erasing the boundary between “witness” and “criminal”

Bascuas 05 Ricardo, Assoc Prof of Law, “The Unconstitutionality of ‘Hold Until Cleared’,” Vanderbilt Law Review, p.lexis

Mistakenly believing that federal law ... prospective arrestee committed a crime.

Material witness arrests are targeted at Muslims because of unconscious fear and racialized cognitive biases

Gouldin 12 Lauryn, Assist. Prof of Law at Syracuse, “When Deference is Dangerous,” American Criminal Law Review 49, p.1360-7

Before evaluating the factors that ... against the threats posed by disfavored groups.”204

The threat of material witness detention is uniquely destructive to Muslim political existence due to the risk of guilt by association

Kreimer 04 Seth, Prof of Law at Penn, “Watching the Watchers,” Journal of Constitutional Law 7, p.164-8

Of more current sobering concern is ... witnesses from participating in dissenting activity.

The material witness statute is uniquely abusive because it gives the government a carte blanche

Studnicki and Apol 02 Stacey and John, “Witness Detention and Intimidation,” St. John’s Law Review 76.3, p.485-6

A material witness is an individual ... witness has committed a crime. 10

The exclusion of Arabs and Muslims from the political community is form of “scapegoat justice” that results in the solidification of an American imperialist identity

Denike 08, gender paraphrased Margaret, Assoc Prof of Political Theory, “The Human Rights of Others,” Hypatia 23.2, p.111-2

Exceptional responses to the other ... its on the right side of justice.

PLAN: United States federal courts should rule that the preventative detention of Muslims as material witnesses in the so-called “war on terror” is unconstitutional.

Our plan is an imagination of ethical politics – we must imagine policies that confront unconscious cultural fears and open up possibilities to respond to the other

Oliver 07 Kelly, Prof of Philosophy at Vanderbilt, Women as Weapons of War, p.162-6

The freedom that comes from creating ... our hopes for peace "to the dogs.

Judicial review should be read as parataxis – court precedent is the scene of power and a necessary site of political agency and public memory

Anderson 95 Virginia, Assoc Prof of English, “Antithetical Ethics,” JAC 15.2, p.273-6

None of what the Constitution implies ... audience that tradition had produced.

The struggle against domination and violence requires a radical democratic politics committed to public engagement

Giroux 12 Henry, Waterbury Chair Professor of Secondary Education and Cultural Studies, “Can Democratic Education Survive in a Neoliberal Society?” http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/ 12126-can-democratic-education-survive-in-a-neoliberal-society

As governments globally give up ... of a truly global, democratic future.

We must reinvigorate the constitution as a site for social justice – the only way to make change is to reappropriate the terms of liberal democracy through rhetorical interventions

Anderson 95 Virginia, Assoc Prof of English, “Antithetical Ethics,” JAC 15.2, p.273-6

Hence, Burke's reading of the Constitution ... spaces that many others can share.

We have the best theory of persuasion – the only way to disturb sedimented assumptions about liberal democracy and the constitution is to reappropriate the terms

Anderson 95 Virginia, Assoc Prof of English, “Antithetical Ethics,” JAC 15.2, p.262-3

I take the goals of this critique ... back on themselves in fruitful ways.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: Doubles | Opponent: UMKC AF | Judge:
Life in the west is defined against the figure of the Muslim – The Muslim is seen as the embodiment of death as such, excluded from the ethical-political community
Goldberg 09 David, Prof of Comparative Lit at UC-Irvine, The Threat of Race, p. 163-8
The figure of the Muslim, alongside that of the Jew, has historically book
AND
self not possible for the beast, or for the beastly in us. 

He continues…
Goldberg 09 David, Prof of Comparative Lit at UC-Irvine, The Threat of Race, p. 175-7

The shift in Europe’s dominant fixation of concern and resentment from the figure of “
AND
again American foreign adventure, the “new world,” in Bush braggadocio.

One manifestation of this exclusion is the use of material witness laws to indefinitely detain Muslims in the so-called “War on Terror”
Levenson 02 Laurie, “Detention, Material Witnesses and the War on Terrorism,” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 35, p.1217-24

The War on Terrorism has capitalized on this new attitude. Following the events of
AND
them to do, rather than what it can prove they have done.

Use of the material witness statute effectively guts ANY limitation on the arrest power of the federal government by erasing the boundary between “witness” and “criminal”
Bascuas 05 Ricardo, Assoc Prof of Law, “The Unconstitutionality of ‘Hold Until Cleared’,” Vanderbilt Law Review, p.lexis

Mistakenly believing that federal law had authorized the imprisonment of witnesses since 1789, the
AND
where there is reason to believe that the prospective arrestee committed a crime.

Material witness arrests are targeted at Muslims because of unconscious fear and racialized cognitive biases
Gouldin 12 Lauryn, Assist. Prof of Law at Syracuse, “When Deference is Dangerous,” American Criminal Law Review 49, p.1360-7

Before evaluating the factors that prompted judicial acquiescence in the material-witness context,
AND
to vastly exaggerate and react against the threats posed by disfavored groups.”204

The threat of material witness detention is uniquely destructive to Muslim political existence due to the risk of guilt by association
Kreimer 04 Seth, Prof of Law at Penn, “Watching the Watchers,” Journal of Constitutional Law 7, p.164-8

Of more current sobering concern is the use of the "material witness" authority
AND
who seek to avoid entanglement as material witnesses from participating in dissenting activity.
The exclusion of Arabs and Muslims from the political community is form of “scapegoat justice” that results in the solidification of an American imperialist identity
Denike 08, gender paraphrased Margaret, Assoc Prof of Political Theory, “The Human Rights of Others,” Hypatia 23.2, p.111-2

Exceptional responses to the other are not restricted to tyrannical dictatorships or oppressive fundamentalisms of
AND
sameness and to tell itself that its on the right side of justice.

I am privileged. I have an intimate knowledge of how my whiteness lends me certain advantages in discursive spaces as well as in the political sphere. I have the ability to socially and politically engage in the world, and I’ve come to know that not all bodies have the same privilege that I do. It’s important to directly confront the cognitive biases that exist within politics, which is why we wrote this aff – we want to CONFRONT the social constructions that have rendered Muslims socially dead. I’m not just going to pretend my privilege doesn’t exist – I want to use my privilege to challenge whiteness.
Thus, we present the plan: United States federal courts should rule that the preventative detention of material witnesses in the so-called “war on terror” is unconstitutional.

Our plan is an imagination of ethical politics – we must imagine policies that confront unconscious cultural fears and open up possibilities to respond to the other
Oliver 07 Kelly, Prof of Philosophy at Vanderbilt, Women as Weapons of War, p.162-6

The freedom that comes from creating and recreating the meaning of one's life rests on
AND
them, we risk sending our hopes for peace "to the dogs.

Judicial review should be read as parataxis – court precedent is the scene of power and a necessary site of political agency and public memory
Anderson 95 Virginia, Assoc Prof of English, “Antithetical Ethics,” JAC 15.2, p.273-6

None of what the Constitution implies, according to Burke, is in the Constitution
AND
 understood it, and spoke to the audience that tradition had produced.

The struggle against domination and violence requires a radical democratic politics committed to public engagement
Giroux 12 Henry, Waterbury Chair Professor of Secondary Education and Cultural Studies, “Can Democratic Education Survive in a Neoliberal Society?” http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/ 12126-can-democratic-education-survive-in-a-neoliberal-society

As governments globally give up their role of providing social safety nets, social provisions
AND
and collectively to reclaim the promises of a truly global, democratic future.

We must reinvigorate the constitution as a site for social justice – the only way to make change is to reappropriate the terms of liberal democracy through rhetorical interventions
Anderson 95 Virginia, Assoc Prof of English, “Antithetical Ethics,” JAC 15.2, p.273-6

Hence, Burke's reading of the Constitution casts it as a strangely postmodern document:
AND
Only then can we tum them into spaces that many others can share.

We have the best theory of persuasion – the only way to disturb sedimented assumptions about liberal democracy and the constitution is to reappropriate the terms
Anderson 95 Virginia, Assoc Prof of English, “Antithetical Ethics,” JAC 15.2, p.262-3

I take the goals of this critique and this practice to be an expansion of
AND
moreover, to co-opt and colonize the suspect term "democracy"

 for a new critical agenda, turning its traditional meanings back on themselves in fruitful ways.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas BC | Judge: Rubino, Bunas, J Cheek
We read a performance that splices parts of the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas and the Black Woman's Manifesto by the Third World Women's Alliance ... it also incorporates things we have written.

Our performance of the SCUM manifesto by Valerie Solanas and the Black Woman’s Manifesto by The Third World Women’s Alliance shows how the public sphere has been constructed to exclude minority bodies.  The bourgeois, white, abled, heterosexual male has become an abstract figure, deemed the ideal citizen-subject of the public sphere. This process of abstraction creates a logic of domination whereby bodies marked with difference are devalued
Melissa Deem 2002 *Edited for ableist rhetoric (Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, University of Iowa “Stranger sociability, public hope, and the limits of political transformation” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 88:4, P449-451)  
Through rhetorics of disincorporation, both the subject who comes to normative status and the
AND
which dominant norms of stranger-relationality posit strangerhood and intimacy as opposites.

America’s defeat in the Vietnam War ruptured military masculinity. The wounded and dead soldiers forced attention to the embodied male subject. However, targeted killing salvaged the white, heterosexual, male body by purging its imperfections.  
Cristina Masters 2005 (professor in The Centre for International and Security Studies at York University “Bodies of Technology: Cyborg Soldier and Militarized Masculinities” International Feminist Journal of Politics 7:1 March 2005 p. 119-120)
Techno-militarized masculinity has come to symbolize the model American soldier, represented in
AND
Vietnam essentially represented a failure to master the body, irrationality and emotion.

Social inequality makes debate impossible – unconscious and informal mechanisms of exclusion mean that participants aren’t on an even playing field.  Even when minoritarian subjects do speak, they are not heard – addressing this social inequality is a prerequisite for further deliberation.
Fraser 90 *Edited for ableist rhetoric Nancy, Prof of Political and Social Science at the New School, “Rethinking the Public Sphere,” Social Text 25/26, p.63-65
Habermas's account of the bourgeois conception of the public sphere stresses its claim to be
AND
inequality infects formally inclusive existing public spheres and taints discursive interaction within them.

Women are expected to live with and desire those who traditionally oppress us. Public testimony is a method for making the bodily experience of being a woman known, but under that paradigm feminine speech becomes the incessant nag, producing a powerless text that either forces women to speak and be made powerless or voluntarily fall silent. Hyperembodying the male is key to reclaiming the complaint.
Deem 96 *Edited for ableist rhetoric Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.513-515
The fascination of the national political imaginary with the transgressive practices of women that render
AND
while simultaneously making the complaint-as a mode of containment-dangerous.

The scatological rhetoric of the manifesto is necessary to cut through the bullshit.  It is indecorous and excessive and therefore pushes the white body and male body out into the open.  This is the only way to force the majoritarian subject to feel the violence that minority groups traditionally suffer within the dominant landscape.
Deem 96 *Edited for ableist rhetoric Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.524-5
For the purpose of my reading, I situate the SCUM Manifesto, a minor
AND
cunning of the patriarchal public sphere erected on the pathology of heterosexual desire.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas BC | Judge: Rubino, Bunas, J Cheek
Their call for capitalism to come first justifies the invisibility of the straight white male
ROSS, 2000 Marlon; is Professor of English and Associate Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, New Literary History 31.4; 827-850
Touting class or "economic justice"... the folk and their culture.

Your insertion of “masculine and feminine analysis” into Marxist theory a deus ex machina – it doesn’t have the proper theoretical of explanatory grounding to solve the neutrality of Marxism. Feminist-Marxists also fall into the neutrality trap which COOPTS and TRIVIALIZES feminism
Gatens 96 Moira: Philosophy Department chair at The University of Sydney Imaginary bodies: Ethics, power and corporeality Routledge. P. 15-16.
The commitment to economism or humanism ...crucial stake in these struggles. 

Marxism leaves the public-provide divide unchallenged – replaces a masculine worldview.
Pandey 2006 (Anupam, thesis submitted to faculty of graduate studies and research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctorate of philosophy department of political science Carleton university, forgin bonds with women, nature and the third world:  an ecofeminist critique of international relations, proquest)
To recapitulate, ecofeminism values the significant contribution ... both socially and biologically constructed.  57-58.

We need to focus on gender and race since class is not written on the body.
Alcoff 2006 ( Professor at City University, VISIBLE IDENTITIES: Race, Gender, and the Self found on pages 85-86)
Critics of identity are sometimes responding... the issue of racial "mixes."

Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas BC | Judge: Rubino, Bunas, J Cheek
The detached stance of the policy maker in debate divorces us from true advocacy. Simulations only serve to distance us from real world political participation
 DSRB 2008 (Shanara,"THE HARSH REALITIES OF “ACTING BLACK”: HOW AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICY DEBATERS NEGOTIATE REPRESENTATION THROUGH RACIAL PERFORMANCE AND STYLE," pg. 118-120)

Mitchell observes that the stance ...to their rhetorical stance.

Deliberative democracy coopts the energy of activists trying to engage in policy alternatives without challenging structural constraints. The only option is to withdraw from the traditional democratic deliberation to engage in a critique of it’s processes.
Young 2001 (Iris Marion, “Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy”, Political Theory, Vol. 29, No. 5 (Oct., 2001), pp. 682)

Let us suppose that...ongoing  settings  of  official  policy  discussion.

Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: UNI | Judge:
Material Witness- 

PLAN: United States federal courts should rule that the arrests of material witnesses in the so-called “war on terror” is unconstitutional.

Tournament: All | Round: Finals | Opponent: Any | Judge: Catz
If you have any questions about the performance we read for the variations of our SCUM aff, please email- snelling101@gmail.com 

Thank you!

Tournament: Wake forest | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Michigan State | Judge:
The beginning of the 1AC is a performance modified from the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas 

Our adaptation of Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto is a reclamation of the radical potential of queer feminist politics.  Minoritarian speech has been excluded from the political imaginary as nothing more than whiny complaining, as a repetitive “nagging” that can be dismissed as inconsequential.  This is because the bourgeois white male is naturalized as the symbolic figure of political agency through the invisibility of its body.  Our performance makes the male body visible, opening new possibilities for political agency.
Deem 96 Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.511-3

Feminists writing today are ... discourses operating in a cramped space.

Women are expected to live with and desire those who traditionally oppress us. We’re stuck in a paradox – public testimony is a method for making the bodily experience of being a woman known, but under that paradigm feminine speech becomes the incessant nag, producing a powerless text that either forces women to speak and be made powerless or voluntarily fall silent.
Deem 96 Melissa D. Deem: professor of Communications at the University of New Hampshire, specializing in gender communication. “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture 1996. 511-537

Taken together, the ... only places left to go (p. 15). 

Social inequality makes debate impossible – unconscious and informal mechanisms of exclusion mean that participants aren’t on an even playing field.  Even when minoritarian subjects do speak, they are not heard – addressing this social inequality is a prerequisite for further deliberation.
Fraser 90 Nancy, Prof of Political and Social Science at the New School, “Rethinking the Public Sphere,” Social Text 25/26, p.63-65

Habermas's account of ... discursive interaction within them.

The scatological rhetoric of the manifesto is necessary to cut through the bullshit.  It is indecorous and excessive and therefore pushes the male body out into the open.  This is the only way to force the majoritarian subject to feel upon his body the violence that minority groups traditionally suffer within the dominant landscape.
Deem 96 Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.524-5

For the purpose of ... pathology of heterosexual desire.

Tournament: WSU | Round: Octas | Opponent: Oklahoma | Judge:
Our adaptation of Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto is a reclamation of the radical potential of queer feminist politics.  Minoritarian speech has been excluded from the political imaginary as nothing more than whiny complaining, as a repetitive “nagging” that can be dismissed as inconsequential.  This is because the bourgeois white male is naturalized as the symbolic figure of political agency through the invisibility of its body.  Our performance makes the male body visible, opening new possibilities for political agency.
Deem 96 Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.511-3

Feminists writing today …  in a cramped space.
Social inequality makes debate impossible – unconscious and informal mechanisms of exclusion mean that participants aren’t on an even playing field.  Even when minoritarian subjects do speak, they are not heard – addressing this social inequality is a prerequisite for further deliberation.
Fraser 90 Nancy, Prof of Political and Social Science at the New School, “Rethinking the Public Sphere,” Social Text 25/26, p.63-65
Habermas's account of …  interaction within them.
The scatological rhetoric of the manifesto is necessary to cut through the shit.  It is indecorous and excessive and therefore pushes the male body out into the open.  This is the only way to force the majoritarian subject to feel upon his body the violence that minority groups traditionally suffer within the dominant landscape.
Deem 96 Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.524-5

For the purpose …. of heterosexual desire.

Women are expected to live with and desire those who traditionally oppress us. We’re stuck in a paradox – public testimony is a method for making the bodily experience of being a woman known, but under that paradigm feminine speech becomes the incessant nag, producing a powerless text that either forces women to speak and be made powerless or voluntarily fall silent.
Deem 96 Melissa D. Deem: professor of Communications at the University of New Hampshire, specializing in gender communication. “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture 1996. 511-537
Taken together, the ….  left to go (p. 15). 

SCUM breaks down the restriction on feminism in contemporary public discourses.
Deem 96 Melissa D. Deem: professor of Communications at the University of New Hampshire, specializing in gender communication. “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture 1996. 511-537
Through contemporary rearticulations. ….  "modes of containment in the public¶ (Berlant 1988:244; see also Lesage 1988).

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard BS | Judge: Leeson-Schatz
Kenneth Burke has written that every re-flection of reality is also a se-lection of reality, and thus necessarily a de-flection of reality.  Burke points to the problem inherent in representation.  Every time that we attempt to represent, or “speak for,” another, we are caught up in a game of power and privilege.  

According to Linda Alcoff, a professor of philosophy who has described her lifeworld as being invisible to the world of public discourse, the entitlement to speak is not natural.  It is the product of certain “rituals of speaking” present in a given situation. The positionality of the speaker and nature of the discursive context predetermine the truth-value of what’s said.
Alcoff 92 Linda, Prof of Philosophy, “The Problem of Speaking for Others,” Cultural Critique 20, p.12-3

A plethora of sources have argued in this century that the neutrality of the theorizer
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claim marked their speech as dismissable in the eyes of the same milieu.
Rituals of speaking are part of a genocidal geo-politics of knowledge production.  National borders mark cultural and epistemic boundaries that disqualify non-European epistemologies and justify the eradication of difference.  
Mignolo and Tlostanova 06 Walter and Madina, Prof of Literature and Prof of the History of Culture, “Theorizing from the Borders,” European Journal of Social Theory, p.205-6, 208

The modern foundation of knowledge is territorial and imperial. By modern we mean the
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colonization of space and the invention of America that became integrated into a Christian
tripartite geo-political order: Asia, Africa and Europe. It was from
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colonial, shifting to the geo- and body-politics of knowledge.
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Accordingly, our ?rst thesis is the following. ‘Borders’ are not only geographic
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democratization) or, in today’s language – by the globalization of culture.

Teams like Louisville, Cal State Fullerton and Towson have long been telling us that systems of privilege infect the ways we make arguments in debate.  Economic, racial, sexual, and other forms of cultural privilege help to produce subterranean biases in debate practice.  Even the very metaphor of “speaking” is itself a privileged notion, assuming certain norms of communication and action which marginalize the claims made by those without access to “speech.”  We would reject this metaphor out of hand if it weren’t for the fact that doing so would only further mask the privilege that does come from our ability to speak.  As a white male in the United States, I am deemed as a subject capable of producing knowledge that should be listened to. In debates, when Emily is being cross-xed they direct their questions towards me because I am considered to be the gatekeeper of our decisions. When Emily tries to regain control of cross-x, people continue to talk over her instead of letting her ask another question.
At its most basic, traditional debate presupposes the right to make claims on behalf of the federal government without ever asking why we get to do that. Many teams read evidence from John Rawls to justify their policy simulations.  Rawls argues that “citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes … they would think most reasonable to enact.”  Always glossed over when debaters read this evidence is the subject of Rawls’s sentence: it is the citizen who acts as if; it is the citizen who thinks reasonably; it is citizens who “view themselves as ideal … legislators.” I get to speak because I am a citizen and my speech forms the “social basis of liberal democracy.”   It is my nation that validates my speech
As white citizens in the United States, we are granted the privilege of having Habeas Corpus and we have a right to not being detained without charge. However, 166 bodies in Guantanamo Bay have been held for more than a decade, even though Bush, Obama, or both have cleared 86 for transfer.
Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin August 14, 2013  (Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)

Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 1 | Opponent: USC | Judge: Stevenson
Beginning of the aff is a performative adaptation of the SCUM Manifesto by Solanas. 

Our adaptation of Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto is a reclamation of the radical potential of queer feminist politics.  Minoritarian speech has been excluded from the political imaginary as nothing more than whiny complaining, as a repetitive “nagging” that can be dismissed as inconsequential.  This is because the bourgeois white male is naturalized as the symbolic figure of political agency through the invisibility of its body.  Our performance makes the male body visible, opening new possibilities for political agency.
Deem 96 Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM:  Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.511-3

Feminists writing today ….  in a cramped space.

America’s defeat in the Vietnam War ruptured military masculinity. The wounded and dead soldiers forced attention to the embodied male subject. However, targeted killing salvaged the white, heterosexual, male body by purging its imperfections.  
Cristina Masters 2005 (professor in The Centre for International and Security Studies at York University “Bodies of Technology: Cyborg Soldier and Militarized Masculinities” International Feminist Journal of Politics 7:1 March 2005 p. 119-120) 

Techno-militarized masculinity ….  body, irrationality and emotion.

Social inequality makes debate impossible – unconscious and informal mechanisms of exclusion mean that participants aren’t on an even playing field.  Even when minoritarian subjects do speak, they are not heard – addressing this social inequality is a prerequisite for further deliberation.
Fraser 90 Nancy, Prof of Political and Social Science at the New School, “Rethinking the Public Sphere,” Social Text 25/26, p.63-65
Habermas's account of …  interaction within them.