Rhetorical Analysis On Violence Against Women

Violence against Women is not just a Women’s Issue The Ted talk that I analyzed was Violence against Women is a- Man’s Issue. The speaker, Jackson Katz effectively articulated his speech. He made sure that the audience perceived him as a credible source by explaining how he has been running a leadership program in the Marine Corporation for about twenty years. In summary, this speech is about how we, as people, are in need of leadership training. Men need to challenge other men to break the silence on sexual abuse, relationship abuse, and child abuse. If men stand up to each other this silence can be broken. This abuse can be diminished if men start considering this not just a women’s issue but a man’s as well. The concepts that are efficiently used in this speech are the rhetorical cannon of Monroe’s Sequence of Events, the use of non-factual sources, rhetorical devices, and clever attention getters. The Monroe’s sequence of events is comprised of five parts: the attention getter, the need, the …show more content…
Men need to stand up and challenge each other and diminish these issues of sexual abuse, relationship abuse, and child abuse. We as citizens need to encourage men to break though the pressures and get them to change what they think manhood is. Asking questions is a key part of getting people to realize this isn’t right. We cannot just brush off these problems by calling them women with relationship problems because it is something more than that. Gender violence is not just a women’s issue but a man’s issue. This speech made by Jackson Katz was effective in presenting the issues clearly to the audience. The concepts I found being used in this speech were Monroe’s sequence of events, the use of non-factual sources, the rhetorical device of analogy, and the use of attention