Tournament: monmouth | Round: 4 | Opponent: nyu | Judge: schatz
International relations are deeply gendered—the aff’s discourse of security is based on a flawed epistemological understanding of the world that makes their methodology suspect
Tickner, 1 IR prof, —professor at the School of International Relations, USC. B.A. in History, U London. M.A. in IR, Yale. PhD in pol sci, Brandeis U (Ann, Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era, 44-47 , KD)
44 New issues and new definitions of security … are beginning to undertake such reanalyses.

War is the product of gendered understandings of life in which the masculine dominates the feminine – it can be removed only when these understandings change.
Workman 96 (Thom, Poli Sci @ U of New Brunswick, YCISS Paper no. 31, p. 5, January 1996, http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/publications/OP31-Workman.pdf)IM
The gender critique of war provides … conquest between nations are inevitable."

This masculine ideology is the root cause of all proliferation, environmental destruction, domestic violence, and war
Warren and Cady 94 (Karen J, Duane L, feminists and authors, Hypatia, “Feminism and Peace: Seeing connections,” pg 16-17)
Much of the current "unmanageability" …. connections in regional, national, and global contexts.

The alternative is to vote negative. In questioning the masculine conceptions of the 1AC we are able to embrace a feminist ethic that challenges the inequalities and violence of the status quo
Moghadam 1 (Valentine, feminist scholar and author, “Violence and Terrorism: Feminist Observations on Islamist Movements, State, and the International System” Muse)
Our world desperately needs … institutionalization of peace education.

Ignorance of gender makes their methodology and arguments suspect—only by investigating the lenses we use to create reality can we develop a basis for action and avoid error replication.
Peterson and Runyan 1999 (V. Spike, professor of political science at the University of Arizona and Anne, professor of women’s studies at Wright State University, 1999, Global Gender Issues, 2nd edition, p. 1-3)
Whenever we study a topic … outdated maps are inadequate, and potentially disastrous, guides.