[Teacher] So it's a 2-1 for the negative.

- I end up voting pro in this round.

Most of my voting comes from sort of the pro's final focus.

- I just don't see much offense coming from either side at the end of the round.

- You guys were too fast, you know, in, in sort of just, you know, you guys could have made the point better on the popular support also.

- I mean, you have to be aggressive, right?

Like, you can't just let your opponent talk over you.

But it's really hard as a woman to not come across as, like... b * * *hy.

Right?

Like, aggressive, powerful women are not what people want to see necessarily.

Or, they say they want to see them but then when they're actually in front of 'em they sound "shrill" or "stringent" or whatever.

- For you guys, I wanna hear some really, some more distinction between your summary and your final focus.

Tell me why I should vote for you.

- It's not just that there's implicit bias, it's that it manifests, right?

Like, a lot of women are first speakers rather than second speakers because there's this conception that the second speaker is more important.

And it's not just limited to gender.

This, Asian students are stereotyped as like, being robotic debaters.

Black debaters can be seen as, like, too aggressive.

And in every case you have, like, the other side of the coin which is, like, the, oh, this is one of the good ones.

This is, like, the model of what, like, a debater of color or like a, a woman debater should be because of how closely they're acting to this, like, white male standard.