Throughout the article, she uses fallacious arguments to appeal to fear. In paragraph 2, she says, “The minute you go out with a man, the minute you go to a bar to have drink there is a risk. You can be overpowered,” this is telling women that men are stronger and probably will hurt you, this spreads intimidation and fear among her female audience. Paglia makes a false analogy in the fourth paragraph when she calls women idiots by comparing the car keys being on a top of a car in New York City to a girl being drunk at a fraternity party and going to upstairs with a guy. What Paglia is saying is that it’s the woman’s fault if she gets drunk and raped on a party, but it’s also the men’s responsibility to take care of our
Throughout the article, she uses fallacious arguments to appeal to fear. In paragraph 2, she says, “The minute you go out with a man, the minute you go to a bar to have drink there is a risk. You can be overpowered,” this is telling women that men are stronger and probably will hurt you, this spreads intimidation and fear among her female audience. Paglia makes a false analogy in the fourth paragraph when she calls women idiots by comparing the car keys being on a top of a car in New York City to a girl being drunk at a fraternity party and going to upstairs with a guy. What Paglia is saying is that it’s the woman’s fault if she gets drunk and raped on a party, but it’s also the men’s responsibility to take care of our