Age On The 24th Of August By Julie Szego Analysis

With recent societal problems of ‘slut shaming’ and sexual humiliation of girl there has been pressure on fathers to take the responsibility and teach their sons. This issue is argued by Julie Szego in her opinion article published in the Age on the 24th of August. Szego contends that the fathers must step up and teach their sons about the ways to treat women. This piece targets fathers in particular those with teenage sons.

The author starts of in a sarcastic tone asking the audience “can you hear that” in reference to the “deafening roar from father’s responsibility”. This encourages the author to think about how there has been no action taken by the parents and that the deafening roar seems to be absent. Continuing in a sarcastic tone Szego ask the audience as to …show more content…
This has the effect of that it is time for fathers to step up and teach their sons about goodness rather than just waiting for it to happen. When mentioning the boys expelled from their schools for their acts she states that there is “no doubt” that this is a “relief to their victims”. This reaches out to the audience by allowing them to consider the stress these girls have been going through. Szego believe that they have now been “cast out to be someone else’s problem”. This sways the audience to think about how these boys have not been removed from our society but just given to someone else to take care of. The author also mentions that there are “criminal consequences” for these acts that the boys are taking. This serious tone persuades fathers to consider these consequences and the serious trouble that their sons could be in further encouraging them to take action to teach their sons. Szego continues in an aggressive tone telling the audience to “leave teenage girls the hell alone”. The tone used in this piece is to think about why we are actually placing the blame on the