Tournament: West Point  1ac | Round: 1 | Opponent: All | Judge: All
Observation One: Inherency 

The status quo military treats women like second-class citizens. This makes their jobs more difficult and places women in the military at a higher rate to have violence committed against them.

Benedict, 2009  Helen Benedict is a professor in social issues, and international affairs at Columbia University. She is a novelist and journalist specializing in issues of social injustice and war focusing on women soldiers, military sexual assault, and Iraqi refugees. Her nonfiction book, "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq," (2009 and 2010, Beacon Press) -- won her the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism in 2013, when she was also named one of the “21 Leaders for the 21st. Century” by Womens eNews. In 2010, this work also won the EMMA (Exceptional Merit In Media Award) from the National Women's Political Caucus, and the Ken Book Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Army specialist Mickiela Montoya ... upon in battle.

Gender Discrimination runs rampant in the status quo military structure, womens role in the military and women do not have equal status when it comes to many areas of military practice.
Amanda Painter, May 23, 2013
Gender Discrimination is ... achieve equal rights?

Plan Text: Thus my partner and I advocate that the United States Supreme Court should rule on 14th Amendment Equal Protection grounds  that the President of the United States must order the creation of all-female special operations units for immediate deployment into ongoing combat missions.

Observation Two is the Harms 

First, Structural Violence 

This discrimination of women throughout the military leads to sexual assault, harassment, and many violations of human rights.   

Benedict 2009  Helen Benedict is a professor in social issues, and international affairs at Columbia University. She is a novelist and journalist specializing in issues of social injustice and war focusing on women soldiers, military sexual assault, and Iraqi refugees. Her nonfiction book, "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq," (2009 and 2010, Beacon Press) -- won her the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism in 2013, when she was also named one of the “21 Leaders for the 21st. Century” by Womens eNews. In 2010, this work also won the EMMA (Exceptional Merit In Media Award) from the National Women's Political Caucus, and the Ken Book Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

The majority of ... and Afghanistan wars.

Due to the rampant inequality women in the military are more likely to be raped and are forced to live in silence.
Dean, psychologist and Navy veteran, 1997. Donna, Warriors Without Weapons, 12, NJC)

“Things did happen... and the correct.”

This type of violence is a form of structural violence, perpetuated against women in the military due to their seen inferiority. Structural violence is, and should be considered the biggest impact in the round. Ignoring structural violence, or stating that it is inevitable, only continues to perpetuate and escalate it.

Peterson, professor of political science at the University of Arizona, 1992  (V. Spike, Gendered States, ed: Peterson, p. 49-52)

Quite simply, and ... violence and its insecurities.

Second is Dehumanization

Structural violence is a form of dehumanization  which is the root cause of nuclear war and genocide—when humans are reduced to means or objects, any atrocity becomes justified
Berube, 1997
(Berube, David. Professor. English. University of South Carolina. “Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side.” 1997. http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/berube/prolong.htm.)

Assuming we are ... most powerful weapon.

Once dehumanization happens, and people view others and less than human than violence is more likely to happen.
Maiese, Scholar at CU-Boulder, 2003
(Maiese, Michelle. "Dehumanization." Beyond Intractability. Eds. Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess. Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado, Boulder. Posted: July 2003 http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/dehumanization/.)

While deindividuation and ... the former Yugoslavia.

Dehumanization is the largest impact in this round, we must value each and every  human life.  Ignoring the continued devaluation and dehumanization will lead to the zero-point of the Holocaust.
DILLON 99 (MICHAEL DILLON, UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER, “ANOTHER JUSTICE” POLITICAL THEORY VOL. 27, NO. 2, APRILL 1999, JSTOR)

Otherness is born(e) ... way of being.

Observation 3 is Solvency 

Failure to engage the socialization of gender discrimination ensures a terminally dysfunctional social order. Only through the AFF can we change a distinct and definite form of discrimination that is inequality throughout the military. Unless we do the AFF the problems outlined above, will only continue and get worse over time. The AFF is a critical first step in ending an issue of inequality. 

Warren and Cady, 96 (Karen Warren and Duane Cady, Professors at Macalester and Hamline, Bringing peace home: feminism, violence, and nature, 1996, p. 12-13)

Operationalized, the evidence ... and global contexts.

Denying women access to leadership positions harms society and perpetuates suffering for individual women, only the AFF can end an instance of discrimination and begin to solve the impacts.   
Dean, psychologist and Navy veteran, 1997. Donna, Warriors Without Weapons, 28, NJC

In the long ... to do so. 

Women in special ops and SEALs teams have proven to be more apt at helping and stopping problems of violence within war situations.
 RYM MOMTAZ July 28, 2011
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/female-navy-seals-special-forces-chief-ready-road/story?id=14180174

He added that ... end of August."

Feminist critiques mistakenly assume that there is no place for women in IR, but the analysis of women’s issues can be taken up by mainstream IR methodologies.  This is better than the K because social scientific methodologies can best quantify and solve the harms of patriarchy.
Caprioli, Dept. of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, 4
Mary, “Feminist IR Theory and Quantitative Methodology: A Critical Analysis,” International Studies Review, Volume: 42, p. 255-259, MM 

Conventional feminist IR ... and social justice’’ (Tickner 2001:61).