Eng 105 - Rape Culture

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here by comparing rape culture to other crimes that readers have strong feeling towards. Young uses these pathos in order to get readers hooked on what she has to say, and with this topic pathos is one of the strongest ways to convince readers rape is a huge problem, but society cannot be blamed for it.

Most effectively Young uses logos to persuade her audience that rape culture is something we cannot simply stop, but there are ways to lessen the acts. Young states “Miss. USA pageant winner Nevada’s Nia Sanchez, suggested..women need to learn to “protect themselves””(2014 para.1). Readers tend to believe Young simply because she includes role model for women in our society. She also includes “Research by Boston-area clinical psychologist David Lisak finds that a tiny minority of young men — about 4 percent — are serial predators who knowingly coerce unwilling women into sex”(2014 para 5). This information includes data from a study which attracts readers to be easily persuaded. In addition she adds information such as “Obama administration and Congress have stepped up pressure on schools to respond to the problem more aggressively” (2014 para. 6). Young uses this evidence to prove that people who are known by media have made it known that there are precautions. Also she wants to prove that society is slowly trying to getting rape culture under control.

Young does an outstanding job at persuading men in general are not at fault for rape. She also is persuading readers that women do not provoke themselves to get raped. Rape is a crime, just like murder and burglary. Blaming one gender on rape culture will not solve the crime because at the end of the day someone will commit the crime. After reading Young’s article it is important to take away the big picture, rape will never be okay. As a society we do condone sexual acts, and use certain propaganda to brain wash our society to belittle sexual activity. But as a whole we will never condone sexual acts without the consent of both people in the act.

References

Young, C. (2014, June 29).’Teach men not to rape’:Turn off the outrage machine. The Boston Globe. http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/06/28/teach-men-not-rape-turn-off-outrage-machine/x