Rhetorical Analysis: What Makes a Woman? In What Makes a Woman, Elinor Burkett argues that in order to truly be a woman one must understand the hardships associated with being a female in today’s society. She supports her claim by utilizing the logos of scientific arguments, establishes ethos by using her status as a woman (who has spent her life fighting for women’s rights) to declare the barrier between the male/female genders, as well as euphemism to present potentially offending ideas formally. Furthermore, Burkett assesses what it means to be a woman on the trans spectrum, but more so according to the brain’s chemical responsiveness to the binary “male and female” genders. Her overall purpose is to support the idea that there is no difference, that the brain cannot sense whether it’s female or male. Burkett is trying to push the topic that trans individuals chose that life for themself, their brain did not. She presents a questioning tone in order to appeal to the reader’s ethics.
Elinor Burkett is an established women's right activist who defends women’s rights and looks out for people in general. She is not only concerned with her role as well as status as a woman, but she also ventures through the logical side of what it actually …show more content…
She doesn't undermine the trans community with her statements either, such as “But what we do with those genders- the roles we assign ourselves, and each other, both of them- is almost entirely mutable”. Burkett establishes the looseness within her speech such as to the gender spectrum, yet the formal solidity of her overall tone lays down topics such as what it’s like to be a woman. Although being trans is much more than just the “roles we assign ourself”, she utilizes the softness within this argument to turn a potentially offending statements
Elinor Burkett is an established women's right activist who defends women’s rights and looks out for people in general. She is not only concerned with her role as well as status as a woman, but she also ventures through the logical side of what it actually …show more content…
She doesn't undermine the trans community with her statements either, such as “But what we do with those genders- the roles we assign ourselves, and each other, both of them- is almost entirely mutable”. Burkett establishes the looseness within her speech such as to the gender spectrum, yet the formal solidity of her overall tone lays down topics such as what it’s like to be a woman. Although being trans is much more than just the “roles we assign ourself”, she utilizes the softness within this argument to turn a potentially offending statements