Team game #5: Gender Justice

POINTS: Up to 50 (winning team gets 50 automatically; others on the
value of their work)

Up to 25 for follow-up public discussion

Teams must have their material posted NLT Friday night at midnight. 
Public discussion begins as soon as the first team's response goes up
and continues until Monday at noon (July 23)

Gender justice seems to have generated some passionate discussion in the
past week or so. Here's the next team exercise. It focuses on gender,
but include race as well.

Here are a few papers submitted by classmates that nicely set the
issues for gender justice. Take a look at 
  The first one and the
  The second one

Then, take a look at these Three short questions
  
These will shape discussion on WebBoard and class discussions.

The guiding question:

You instructor argues that patriarchy is a good thing and beneficial.
It's "good business." For millenia, patriarchy and male dominance has
been a stable force in culture and social structure. Heterosexuality
should not be challenged, women's place is child-care, and attempts to
alter these arrangement are unjust because they create social instability
in what is otherwise a functional system. Following Cephalus and
Thrasymachus, patriarchy and heterosexuality are traditional social
institutions and those with the spirit, will, and appetite to enforce
a functional social order have the obligation to resist unjust changes.

Discuss, using all of our readings.

TEAMS A AND C will take the position that discrimination and inequality
can be functional for society and should not be seen as *necessarily*
unjust or unethical.

TEAMS D AND E will take the opposite position, arguing that gender and
racial inequality are inherently unjust.

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