Tournament: USC | Round: 2 | Opponent: San Fran StateIrvine hybrid | Judge: Marvin Carter
The attacks on the World Trade Center revealed the fear that America has of femininity, and its entrenchment in the phallic economy—the phallic symbol of the towers was cut off and was left was a smoldering vagina.
Faludi 7 Susan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feminist, and author, Harvard Graduate, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Terror Dream Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America. Pg 1-296. {Shoell}

Our post-9/11 "sleeper cell" fears also seemed to find
AND
feminine¶ materialistic principle, and it is at its extreme in America."

And America turned its fear of femininity into protective policies that revert to fifties-style myths deployed to keep anxiety buried.
Faludi 7 Susan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feminist, and author, Harvard Graduate, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Terror Dream Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America. Pg 1-296. {Shoell}

IN T H E Y E A R S since 2001, we've been on
AND
buried is one we've been constructing¶ for more than three hundred years.
This anxiety redomesticated femininity and recreated the masculinist war hawks who justify torture and civilian casualties as a focus on the victimization of women and children and the need to protect them.
Faludi 7 Susan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feminist, and author, Harvard Graduate, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for  Advanced Study. The Terror Dream Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America. Pg 1-296. {Shoell}

Allusions to Pearl Harbor provided no traction, and we soon turned¶ our attention
AND
homes," George W. Bush emphasized in his speech on the fifth.
And the national use of the widows of 9/11 valued those who continued the mythical story of masculine heroism. But once the perfect virgins of grief began to exhibit some independence they were branded with scarlet letters; moved from virginal to prostitutes. This entrenches phallocentrism.
Faludi 7 Susan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feminist, and author, Harvard Graduate, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Terror Dream Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America. Pg 1-296. {Shoell}

Ultimately, the lavish attentions of the media left Beamer in an impossible¶ bind
AND
just not reality. Everybody¶ was just behaving like human beings."29

This phallocentrism reduces women to commodities and justifies atrocities.
Irigaray 85 Luce, this psychoanalyst who is not one.  This Sex Which Is Not One.¶ Translated By Catherine Porter.¶ With Carolyn Burke.¶ Cornell University Press.¶ Ithaca, New York. Pg 170-191. {Shoell}

As mother, woman remains on the side of (re)productive nature¶
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that they¶ function as components of private property, or as commodities.

the feminine body is where violence is performed. The aff is ontologically prior to any other impact.
Saigol 8¶ Rubina; “Militarization, Nation and Gender: Women’s Bodies as Arenas of Violent Conflict”Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East; p. 175

It is clear that wherever identity and self are threatened by an Other, an
AND
they will also become the major signifiers in economic struggles and market conflicts.
Phallocentrism is the root cause of the politics that create existential threats
Owens 93 Lara, author and activist, “Her Blood Is Gold” http://members.efn.org/~finnpo/indigenia/The20Return20of20the20Feminine20-20Owen.html

We live at a time of increasing awareness of the female, when feminine values
AND
own species, but also of many other species living on the planet.¶
Thus Hannah and I embrace an ethic of sexual difference as a rejection of the War on Terror as it sustains phallocentrism.
An ethics of sexual difference forms the basis for all encounters with Others. We must recognize that our sex means we can never complete ourselves as representative of humans, we can only encompass half of humanity at best.
Schwab 98 Gail, Senior Associate Dean for Curriculum and Personnel¶ Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, Hofstra University. Diacritics 28.1 Sexual Difference as Model: An Ethics for the Global Future. 76-92 {Shoell}

For Irigaray, the way out of the impasse is through the labor of the
AND
, and its activity plays out in the space between differently constituted subjects.

Our body politics come first—any other interpretation is an attempt to force submission and commodify women—critiquing the political economy is key to end phallocentrism.
Irigaray 85 Luce, this psychoanalyst who is not one.  This Sex Which Is Not One.¶ Translated By Catherine Porter.¶ With Carolyn Burke.¶ Cornell University Press.¶ Ithaca, New York. Pg 170-191. {Shoell}

This type of social system can be interpreted as the practical¶ realization of the
AND
to nature, matter, the¶ body, language, and desire.

Only beginning with sexual difference avoids the erasure of feminine subjectivity.
Franks 3 Mary Anne Associate Professor of Law at University of Miami,¶ J.D. 2007 Harvard Law School,¶ D.Phil 2004 Oxford University,¶ M.Phil 2001 Oxford University,¶ B.A. 1999 Loyola University, Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Obscene Undersides:¶ Women and Evil between the¶ Taliban and the United States. MUSE. {Shoell}

In This Sex Which is Not One (1985) Irigaray allows herself to imagine
AND
Fighting back in ways that the West is not yet able to recognize.

Tournament: UCB | Round: 2 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
The attacks on the World Trade Center revealed the fear that America has of femininity, and Its entrenchment in the phallic economy—the phallic symbol of the towers was cut off and was left was a smoldering vagina.
Faludi 7 Susan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feminist, and author, Harvard Graduate, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Terror Dream Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America. Pg 1-296. {Shoell}

Our post-9/11 "sleeper cell" fears also seemed to find
AND
feminine¶ materialistic principle, and it is at its extreme in America."

This fear and anxiety over the attack lead to leaders blaming the attacks on queers and feminists.
Goodstein 01 Laurie New York Times National Religion Correspondent. Falwell: blame abortionists, feminists and gays. Commentary and reports from America's leading newspaper. Special report: terrorism in the US. Special report: George Bush's America. The Guardian, Wednesday 19 September 2001 11.31 EDT. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/19/september11.usa9. {Shoell}

The Rev Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson set off a minor explosion of their own
AND
wise for us to examine our lives and our hearts and our practices."

And America turned its fear into protective policies that revert to fifties-style myths deployed to keep anxiety buried.
Faludi 7 Susan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feminist, and author, Harvard Graduate, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Terror Dream Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America. Pg 1-296. {Shoell}

IN T H E Y E A R S since 2001, we've been on
AND
buried is one we've been constructing¶ for more than three hundred years.
This anxiety redomesticated femininity and recreated the masculinist war hawks who justify torture and civilian casualties as a focus on the victimization of women and children and the need to protect them.
Faludi 7 Susan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feminist, and author, Harvard Graduate, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for  Advanced Study. The Terror Dream Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America. Pg 1-296. {Shoell}

Allusions to Pearl Harbor provided no traction, and we soon turned¶ our attention
AND
homes," George W. Bush emphasized in his speech on the fifth.
And this anxiety demonized queers resulting in increased homophobia.

Wilber 11 Stuart. For Gay 9/11 Heroes, Sung And Unsung, Love Is Eternal. The New Civil Rights Movement. http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/for-gay-911-heroes-sung-and-unsung-love-is-eternal/discrimination/2011/09/11/26756. {Shoell}

Unlike Father Mychal, another prominent hero, Mark Bingham was openly gay and proud
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up and be counted and demand equality — nothing more or nothing less.”

And the national use of the widows of 9/11 valued those who continued the mythical story of masculine heroism. But once the perfect virgins of grief began to exhibit some independence they were branded with scarlet letters; moved from virginal to prostitutes. This entrenches phallocentrism.
Faludi 7 Susan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feminist, and author, Harvard Graduate, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Terror Dream Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America. Pg 1-296. {Shoell}

Ultimately, the lavish attentions of the media left Beamer in an impossible¶ bind
AND
just not reality. Everybody¶ was just behaving like human beings."29

This phallocentrism reduces women to commodities and justifies atrocities.
Irigaray 85 Luce, this psychoanalyst who is not one.  This Sex Which Is Not One.¶ Translated By Catherine Porter.¶ With Carolyn Burke.¶ Cornell University Press.¶ Ithaca, New York. Pg 170-191. {Shoell}

As mother, woman remains on the side of (re)productive nature¶
AND
that they¶ function as components of private property, or as commodities.

The feminized body is where violence is performed. The aff is ontologically prior to any other impact.
Saigol 8¶ Rubina; “Militarization, Nation and Gender: Women’s Bodies as Arenas of Violent Conflict”Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East; p. 175

It is clear that wherever identity and self are threatened by an Other, an
AND
they will also become the major signifiers in economic struggles and market conflicts.
Phallocentrism is the root cause of the politics that create existential threats
Owens 93 Lara, author and activist, “Her Blood Is Gold” http://members.efn.org/~finnpo/indigenia/The20Return20of20the20Feminine20-20Owen.html

We live at a time of increasing awareness of the female, when feminine values
AND
own species, but also of many other species living on the planet.¶
Thus Hannah and I embrace an ethic of sexual difference as a rejection of the War on Terror as it sustains phallocentrism.
An ethics of sexual difference forms the basis for all encounters with Others. We must recognize that our sex means we can never complete ourselves as representative of humans, we can only encompass half of humanity at best.
Schwab 98 Gail, Senior Associate Dean for Curriculum and Personnel¶ Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, Hofstra University. Diacritics 28.1 Sexual Difference as Model: An Ethics for the Global Future. 76-92 {Shoell}

For Irigaray, the way out of the impasse is through the labor of the
AND
, and its activity plays out in the space between differently constituted subjects.

Our body politics come first—any other interpretation is an attempt to force submission and commodify women—critiquing the political economy is key to end phallocentrism.
Irigaray 85 Luce, this psychoanalyst who is not one.  This Sex Which Is Not One.¶ Translated By Catherine Porter.¶ With Carolyn Burke.¶ Cornell University Press.¶ Ithaca, New York. Pg 170-191. {Shoell}

This type of social system can be interpreted as the practical¶ realization of the
AND
to nature, matter, the¶ body, language, and desire.

Only beginning with sexual difference avoids the erasure of feminine subjectivity.
Franks 3 Mary Anne Associate Professor of Law at University of Miami,¶ J.D. 2007 Harvard Law School,¶ D.Phil 2004 Oxford University,¶ M.Phil 2001 Oxford University,¶ B.A. 1999 Loyola University, Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Obscene Undersides:¶ Women and Evil between the¶ Taliban and the United States. MUSE. {Shoell}

In This Sex Which is Not One (1985) Irigaray allows herself to imagine
AND
Fighting back in ways that the West is not yet able to recognize.