Summary Of It's Not Your Job To Change People By Jessica Valenti

Jessica Valenti, a feminist author and columnist, in her article “‘It’s not your job to change people’: a letter to my 15-year-old self,” argues that young women face adversity and uncertainty during adolescence and are in need of strong feminist works such as Valenti’s book Sex Object: A Memoir for guidance on how to combat sexism. She supports the claim by first constructing a framed narrative in a letter format to convey honesty and vulnerability, then appealing to the ethical nature of the audience by emphasizing her experience with sexism through personal experience and prominence as a feminist author, and finally incorporating humor to seem casual and personal. Valenti’s purpose is to convey the difficulties and challenges that a young