Summary Of What Makes A Woman

A Different Perspective In the article “What Makes a Woman?” Elinor Burkett begins by describing how she felt about the comments feminists were making and that the transgender community is a part of it. Burkett also points that women who were not born as women don’t truly know what it's like to be a woman, they've never lived through the hardships we experience every day. “They haven't gone through the world as women and been shaped by all that this entails.” (Burkett, par. 10) There are changes that are being made not just in women's colleges but also in abortion centers, which are now including the transgender community. These places are trying to include them because they don’t want to seem discriminatory. Transgender activists say that there are no contradictions, and anyone who believes such things is just holding on to the old fashioned way. The use of rhetorical appeals is to make her statement stronger, that the transgender community can’t call themselves women that easily. Burkett uses the appeal to authority, also known as ethos, by quoting experts in all
Other facts include how women constantly have to live with fear. It is true that we are afraid to go out at night with friends especially by ourselves. We go out checking behind to make sure there is no one, there have been many reports of women who’ve been raped or attacked. Not one woman would want to go through such situation. During the day as during the night, it is the same thing. We are not as strong. People who are transitioning from males to females have never had to deal with this. Why? Well because these kinds of things are more common to occur in women. These facts helped Burkett to argue that indeed transgender people have not gone through the things and problems born women have been going through their whole lives ever since they were little up until they