Penelope

Philosopher

7 points7 upheld1 under review, tied, or overturned

• HEATED Debate w/ Feminists. Wage Gap, Pro Choice ft. @MikeRashidOfficial at 54:27tied, awaiting the moderator
  The council is split: nothing counts until the moderator decides.
  clarification (+1)
  “Does everything that we say that's, like, our answer, you have to always just assume it's a lie?”
  Diogenes: Penelope asks Myron to state the standard behind his dismissal, which exposes that his method rejects any answer that disagrees with him in advance.
  • Aristotle uphold: On the record: Penelope's position throughout the show has been to push back against Myron's sweeping "on balance of probability" claims and demand he show his work ("where's the proof exactly?", "I wanna see the data"); here she does exactly that, asking him to name the standard by which he's just declared the ladies' unanimous "no" a lie. Her question directly follows Myron's "I don't believe that... they're not gonna admit that" and asks him to state the rule he's applying rather than assume it; it is not loaded, since the presupposition (that he's dismissing their answer) is exactly what he just said, and it gets a direct answer from Myron ("women are never going to tell unflattering realities..."), so it functioned as a genuine clarification that advanced the exchange rather than closing it.
  • Socrates overturn: Read blind, found nothing worth calling. This is a single rhetorical question pushing back on Myron's dismissal of the women's "no" answers, not a developed move: Penelope states no premises, names no fallacy, and isn't asking for a definition of a disputed term (unlike Myron's "define evolved traditional" moment). It's a brief in-the-moment jab, comparable to other short reactive lines in this debate that don't rise to an explicit argument, a named fallacy spotted, or a clarification request.
  • Plato uphold: On the record: Penelope's position since early in the debate has been to push back on Myron's claimed fact-based objectivity and expose where it rests on assumption or unfalsifiable dismissal of women's stated answers; this line is a direct continuation of that standing objection, not a departure from it. Myron had just waved off the ladies' unanimous "no" to the friend-poaching question with "I don't believe that but okay." Penelope's line directly puts to him the standard he is applying — that any answer contradicting his priors is treated as a lie — rather than assuming what he meant. It is a real, on-topic question (not mere mockery: it lacks a target-ending jab and instead demands he state his criterion), and Myron does in fact answer it next line ("women are never going to tell unflattering realities..."), confirming the question was substantive and functioned to expose his unfalsifiable framework. This is consistent with the run of prior calls this bench upheld against Myron's "I speak in facts" posture (the appeal-to-authority and hasty-generalisation calls at 51:48/48:50), so crediting Penelope here for asking him to justify rather than assume is the correct continuation of that same pattern.
  • Thesmothetes leave: The dispute is not about a fact in the record but about whether a single rhetorical retort ("you have to always just assume it's a lie?") rises to the level of a genuine request for the standard being applied, as Aristotle and Plato read it, or is merely pushback dressed as a question with no definitional content sought, as Socrates reads it, unlike Penelope's later explicit demand for cited data. No listed rule fixes where that line falls; it is a real disagreement of judgment over the label, so it is left to the archon.
  Judged on 2026-09-25 under rules 9c12936550a6, since revised
• HEATED Debate w/ Feminists. Wage Gap, Pro Choice ft. @MikeRashidOfficial at 1:22:51upheld
  The council upheld the call: Penelope earned 1 point.
  explicit argument (+1)
  “… if you're a valuable person to people, if you have something to offer them, it's not always just about sex. Like, I was there for him between [through] thick and thin for other things…”
  Diogenes: Myron flatly asserted "It's a fallacy" about cross-sex friendship. Penelope answered with a stated reason, that people offer value beyond sex, and a concrete instance from her own life.
  • Aristotle uphold: On the record: Penelope has held since her first extended turn that men and women can be genuine platonic friends grounded in mutual value beyond sex, evidenced by her own thirteen-year friendship account; this quote is a direct restatement and application of that same position, not a departure from it. This is a plain instance of premises supporting a conclusion: value-beyond-sex (premise) plus a concrete lived instance (being there through thick and thin) offered as evidence for the conclusion that cross-sex friendship isn't reducible to sex. It directly answers Myron's bare assertion "It's a fallacy" with actual reasoning rather than mere assertion or mockery.
  • Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "evidence", on the same ledger as the callout. Against the hosts' running claim that a man's attention or waiting always cashes out to sex, Penelope grounds her counter-claim ("it's not always just about sex") in a specific, checkable-in-kind particular rather than a bare assertion: she names the concrete thing she actually provided him — being there through hard times, for reasons other than sex — consistent with the same lived-experience-as-evidence move she uses elsewhere in the debate (e.g. the section/spending counterexample at 91:39).
  • Plato uphold: On the record: Penelope's declared position since the opening is that men and women can be genuine platonic friends grounded in mutual non-sexual value; this line restates and supports that exact thesis rather than departing from it. This is a direct continuation of Penelope's opening thesis that "women have value beyond sex" and that men and women can be real platonic friends "based on mutual value (business, knowledge, loyalty) rather than sex." Here she states the premise plainly (value to a person isn't always sexual) and supports it with a concrete instance from her own account (being there for him through thick and thin), functioning as a real premise-to-point argument rather than bare assertion — consistent with prior bench rulings crediting her for the same move at 91:39 and 145:15.
  Judged on 2026-09-27 under rules 9c12936550a6, since revised
• HEATED Debate w/ Feminists. Wage Gap, Pro Choice ft. @MikeRashidOfficial at 1:31:39upheld
  The council upheld the call: Penelope earned 1 point.
  explicit argument (+1)
  “He would go to the club and party and spend lots of money. He would have all the girls in his section. He was that guy. But to me, that wasn't really a turn on.”
  Diogenes: Against Myron's universal preselection claim ("women want men that other women want, period"), Penelope offers a direct counterexample from her own experience and adds a reason the claim may not generalise: dating norms vary between cultures and cities. She rebuts the claim itself instead of just denying it.
  • Aristotle uphold: On the record: Penelope has held, since her first extended turn (the thirteen-year friend story and "men and women can be friends" claim), a position of countering Myron's universal generalizations with personal counterexamples and requests for evidence; this line continues that same method rather than introducing a new one. Penelope's stated position since early in the debate is that men and women can have genuine non-sexual value relationships and that Myron's sweeping "balance of probability" claims about women don't hold universally; she has repeatedly countered with personal experience and requests for evidence. Here she lays out a premise (a preselected, status-flush man was available to her) and a conclusion (that this was not what attracted her), then extends it with a further premise (dating norms vary by city/culture, citing Vancouver) to conclude the preselection claim doesn't generalize — this is premises stated plainly leading to a conclusion, not a bare denial, and it continues rather than departs from her established rebuttal method.
  • Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "evidence", on the same ledger as the callout. Against Myron's sweeping claim that "women want men that other women want, period... it's biologically proven," Penelope offers a specific, checkable counter-case from her own life: a wealthy, preselected man with a section full of girls whom she nonetheless was not sexually turned on by. She distinguishes the claim (preselection is universally arousing) from the evidence (her own concrete experience), directly rebutting the generalization rather than merely asserting a feeling.
  • Plato uphold: On the record: Penelope's position since the thirteen-year-friend story has been to resist Myron's sweeping claims about what "women" universally want by supplying her own counterexamples and reasoning; this line continues that same defended position rather than departing from it. Penelope has held throughout the friendship/thirteen-year exchange and after that women aren't simply won over by preselection or wealth markers, and here she extends that position into a direct rebuttal of Myron's "women want men that other women want, period" claim: she states the premise (the wealthy, preselected man was not a turn-on for her), gives her reasoning (she saw him as a friend, and dating norms vary by culture/city), and draws the conclusion that his universal claim doesn't hold. That is premises stated plainly leading to a conclusion, not a bare denial.
  Judged on 2026-09-25 under rules 9c12936550a6, since revised
• HEATED Debate w/ Feminists. Wage Gap, Pro Choice ft. @MikeRashidOfficial at 1:44:32upheld
  The council upheld the call: Penelope earned 1 point.
  clarification (+1)
  “How do you know these stats?”
  Diogenes: Penelope puts the burden of proof back on Myron and asks where his statistics come from before accepting them. His reply, "I'll give you the studies after... This is all facts", is the second time he has put off producing sources (see 56:41).
  • Aristotle uphold: On the record: Penelope's position throughout this stretch has been to challenge Myron's "balance of probabilities" statistics rather than accept them outright (as with her later "where's the proof exactly?"); asking "How do you know these stats?" is a direct continuation of that stance, not a departure from it. This is a straightforward request for the source behind an asserted statistic before accepting it, of the same kind as the adjacent 105:33 exchange already upheld as clarification in this same debate; Myron's own reply ("I'll give you the studies after") confirms no sourcing was yet on the table to assume.
  • Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "clarification". Rather than accepting Myron's bare claim about the percentage of men having sex with women, Penelope stops to ask where the figure comes from before engaging with it further, the same kind of evidentiary pushback later credited to Isla at 105:33 and 112:32.
  • Plato uphold: On the record: Penelope's position through this stretch of the debate has been to resist Myron's sweeping "fact"-based claims by demanding their basis rather than accepting them outright (paralleling her earlier resistance on the thirteen-year-friend and wage-gap exchanges), and this line continues that same pattern rather than departing from it. Penelope declines to take Myron's "100% of single men" sex-stat claim at face value and instead asks for its epistemic basis before engaging further — the same posture Isla and others take toward his unnamed-study claims elsewhere in the debate — and Myron's answer ("I'll give you the studies after... this is all facts") again defers sourcing, echoing his identical deferral at 56:41, which supports treating her question as a genuine, unmet request for grounding rather than an assumed premise.
  Judged on 2026-09-25 under rules 9c12936550a6, since revised
• HEATED Debate w/ Feminists. Wage Gap, Pro Choice ft. @MikeRashidOfficial at 2:01:14upheld
  The council upheld the call: Penelope earned 1 point.
  explicit argument (+1)
  “Men can get women pregnant every single time that they have sex and ejaculate. Women can only get pregnant like two three days of the month. So it's really, I feel up to the men to make sure…”
  Diogenes: Penelope answers Myron with a stated counter-argument: male fertility is continuous and female fertility is cyclical, so men carry the greater share of responsibility for preventing conception. It is a premise-and-conclusion rebuttal aimed at the conception stage, which his argument leaves out.
  • Aristotle uphold: On the record: Penelope's position of record is that responsibility for conception is shared between man and woman, and she has held this since the abortion/contraception exchange began, repeatedly countering Myron's "it's the woman's choice, therefore the woman's sole responsibility" framing. The line states a biological premise (continuous male fertility vs. a narrow female fertile window) and draws a conclusion (men bear significant responsibility for preventing conception) directly rebutting Myron's just-prior claim that responsibility runs entirely to the woman; this reinforces rather than departs from her "shared responsibility" position and meets the bar for premises-and-conclusion argument, matching the standard already applied to Myron's mirror-image argument at 121:01.
  • Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "explicit argument". Against Myron's claim that pregnancy is entirely a female choice and responsibility, Penelope lays out plain premises — men can cause pregnancy at every ejaculation, women are fertile only a few days a month — and draws the conclusion that follows: contraceptive responsibility should fall on the man. It directly rebuts the argument on the table rather than dodging or asserting a mere feeling.
  • Plato uphold: On the record: Penelope's position throughout the pregnancy exchange has been that conception is a shared responsibility ("it's a 50/50... choice... between a man and a woman," 120:26-121:00) rather than solely the woman's as Myron claims; this line elaborates that position with a stated premise (continuous male fertility vs. cyclical female fertility) supporting why men bear a large share of the practical burden of prevention, which is consistent with, not a departure from, her recorded stance. The quote states a clear premise (men can impregnate at any sexual encounter, women are fertile only a few days a month) leading to a stated conclusion (the onus falls more heavily on men to prevent conception), offered directly in response to Myron's claim that pregnancy is entirely the woman's choice/responsibility; this is a genuine premises-to-conclusion rebuttal, not mere assertion.
  Judged on 2026-09-25 under rules 9c12936550a6, since revised
• HEATED Debate w/ Feminists. Wage Gap, Pro Choice ft. @MikeRashidOfficial at 2:04:37upheld
  The council upheld the call: Penelope earned 1 point.
  explicit argument (+1)
  “Where you're like, yo, put a condom on and then they don't put a condom on.”
  Diogenes: Myron's premise is that women control "who they let inseminate them", so all responsibility is theirs. Penelope answers with a first-hand counterexample: a man who ignores her demand for a condom. That breaks the premise's claim that women have complete control over conception.
  • Aristotle uphold: On the record: Penelope's position throughout this stretch of the debate has been to counter Myron's "it's your choice/your body" framing with concrete lived instances rather than bare assertion (as with her earlier friend-of-thirteen-years account and the fertility-window rebuttal at 121:14); this line continues that pattern. The quoted line itself is a bare first-hand anecdote without a stated conclusion (the conclusion — that women don't fully control insemination — was articulated by Isla in the turn just before), so it fits the stricter definition of "evidence" (a concrete, checkable countervailing case) better than "explicit argument," but it is nonetheless a genuine, on-point contribution answering Myron's "you let him inseminate you" premise and merits credit either way.
  • Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "evidence", on the same ledger as the callout. Against Myron's claim that a woman's consent to sex is consent to whatever follows, Penelope offers a specific lived instance — being told a partner would use a condom and then finding he hadn't — as a concrete counter-case rather than a bare assertion, the same kind of particular, checkable-in-kind account credited as evidence at 91:39.
  • Plato uphold: On the record: Penelope's position throughout this stretch of the pregnancy-responsibility exchange has been to resist Myron's premise that women have full unilateral control over conception (building from her 121:14 argument about continuous male fertility); this line continues that same position with a concrete first-hand counterexample rather than departing from it. Though terse, the line supplies a real counterexample directly undercutting Myron's stated premise that a woman "allowed" insemination and is therefore solely responsible; it functions as a premise offered against his premise, in the same brief-but-substantive style this bench has credited elsewhere in this debate.
  Judged on 2026-09-25 under rules 9c12936550a6, since revised
• HEATED Debate w/ Feminists. Wage Gap, Pro Choice ft. @MikeRashidOfficial at 2:25:15upheld
  The council upheld the call: Penelope earned 1 point.
  explicit argument (+1)
  “So when it comes down to these nuanced psychological things that kind of dictate what we end up choosing for ourselves, it's like what you get told you could be is what you become.”
  Diogenes: Against Myron's "by choice" explanation of career sorting, Penelope sets out a socialisation mechanism step by step: different toys and messages in childhood, then deference to male authority, then constrained choices. She uses her own contrasting upbringing and her learned negotiation as supporting evidence, and she corrects his "forced" to "molded", staying precise about what she is claiming.
  • Aristotle uphold: On the record: Penelope's declared position from her framework ("Career sorting and the pay gap partly reflect how girls are socialised ['molded']") is exactly what this line culminates: a step-by-step socialization argument (childhood messaging, deference to authority, boys'-club barriers) concluding that career "choice" is shaped rather than free, using her own atypical upbringing as a contrast case. This is a sustained, multi-premise argument building directly to a stated conclusion ("what you get told you could be is what you become") that answers Myron's "by choice" framing on point, and it is a faithful continuation of, not a departure from, the socialization thesis she declared from her first extended turn.
  • Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "explicit argument". Against Myron's claim that career and pay differences are pure unconditioned individual choice, Penelope builds a premise-to-conclusion case: children are socialized differently (Barbies vs. building bridges), that socialization shapes confidence and the paths people believe are open to them (illustrated by her own counter-socialization into an "alpha mentality"), so "what you get told you could be is what you become" — and from this she draws the testable conclusion that different early messaging would change which careers, and thus which pay, women end up choosing.
  • Plato uphold: On the record: Penelope's position of record is explicitly that "career sorting and the pay gap partly reflect how girls are socialised ('molded')," with the first principle that "people become what they are told they can be"; this passage is a direct, extended statement of exactly that framework (childhood socialization mechanism, personal contrast, boys-club barriers) rather than any departure from it. The passage lays out a clear mechanism (differential childhood messaging shapes confidence and career choice) with a stated conclusion against Myron's "by choice" framing, supported by her own contrasting upbringing and negotiation training as illustrative evidence; this is a textbook explicit argument and matches her declared position of record precisely.
  Judged on 2026-09-25 under rules 9c12936550a6, since revised
• HEATED Debate w/ Feminists. Wage Gap, Pro Choice ft. @MikeRashidOfficial at 2:51:05upheld
  The council upheld the call: Penelope earned 1 point.
  distinction (+1)
  “They're not trying to smash me every time I meet up with them, they're not trying to get me drunk and have sex, they're not taking me on dates.”
  Diogenes: Penelope grants that most of her male friends might be attracted to her ("95% of them probably would"), then separates latent attraction from how the friendship is actually conducted, which is nonsexual. That lets her keep her claim that the friendships are platonic while conceding the part of Myron's view that is true.
  • Aristotle uphold: On the record: Penelope's position has been consistent since her first extended turn (the thirteen-year-friend story) that value-based, non-sexual friendships are real and are defined by conduct; this line is a direct restatement/application of that framework, not a new concession or departure from it. Penelope's declared framework is that a man's intentions show in his conduct, not only in latent attraction; this line applies that exact distinction, separating whether her friends might be attracted to her from whether they actually act on it (getting her drunk, pursuing dates, pushing sex), and uses that to preserve her platonic-friendship claim while not denying possible latent interest.
  • Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "evidence", on the same ledger as the callout. Against Myron's claim that her male friends aren't really platonic because they'd sleep with her given the chance, Penelope points to specific, observable conduct — no seduction attempts, no getting her drunk, no dates — as the checkable basis for calling the friendships genuinely platonic, consistent with her stated view that intentions show in conduct rather than latent attraction alone.
  • Plato uphold: On the record: Penelope's position of record from the opening is that "a man's intentions show in his conduct, not only in latent attraction," and this line is a direct, undiluted restatement of exactly that first principle in response to Myron's pressure, not a new move. This draws a genuine distinction (latent attraction vs. actual conduct) that does real work against Myron's claim that any attraction disqualifies a friendship from being platonic, and it is consistent with, not a departure from, her declared framework since the opening.
  Judged on 2026-09-25 under rules 9c12936550a6, since revised