The Female Price Of Male Pleasure By Li Loofbourow Analysis

Rhetorical Analysis
Endurance champs. This is how Lili Loofbourow describes women in her article “The female price of male pleasure” published by The Week in January, 2018. In the article, after telling the story of the unfortunate sexual encounter between Aziz Ansari and a pseudonymous woman named “Grace,” the author tries to find an answer to a common question: Why didn't she just get out of there as soon as she felt uncomfortable? Consequently, the author explains that women are trained to endure physical and emotional pain, and therefore they don’t immediately understand when they are harassed, or simply uncomfortable. In the #MeToo movement, and the absence of an efficient scientific community treating diseases such as endometriosis,
The trustworthiness of the author derives from the angle of vision of a woman who knows, experiences, and perceives the world and has the capability to write about it accordingly to other women perspectives. An example of the credibility of the author is identified in her explanation of how women are raised and taught “to subordinate their desires to those of others.” Lili Loofbourow explains how other people’s opinions on their esthetic are important for girls who, accordingly, apprehend that “their social value resides in how much others enjoy looking at them.” The author can thoroughly expose this concept because she experienced the same thing when she was a young girl. The experiences that she shares with the protagonists of her article are the main sources of her credibility. The same thing happens when she talks about what “bad sex” means for women. Based on the assumption that the author had a sexual encounter before, she knows that bad sex for a woman means, as she wrote, “coercion, or emotional discomfort, or even more commonly, physical pain.” Being a woman involves thinking as a woman, therefore she has and the capability to present in a truthful and unfiltered way the position of women in society. She has the expertise to present the trials, the opinions, and the feelings of the millions of women standing behind
The metaphor which connects sex and society and the angle of vision she implemented throughout her writing make the whole article extremely brilliant, persuasive, and well-written. “The female price of male pleasure” is an article in which good writing and persuasion are essential to inform the audience, and especially to recognize an issue which is, unfortunately, hidden or ignored by the eyes of the society. Indeed, as she wrote, “The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears,” and consequently, the world is often comfortable with every tribulation women must face. Lili Loofbourow addresses the issue as an insider who has the expertise to get to the heart of it. An insider who is tired of living in