Dr. Pearson
English 102
Sunday, February 1, 2015
“The Objectification of Women: Whose Fault is it?" Santi Derosa
1. The audience DeRosa has in mind would be the people who are using women in an objectified way such as college athletic departments. That use women as recruiters to have more male players willing to come to that school. You can tell by not only the claims that he makes regarding how women are used.
2. The purpose of DeRosa writing this would be to prove how women are treated in this day in age. Rather than being treated like an everyday citizen they are treated like objects and second class citizens. He achieves his point by using quotes and actual female’s opinions on the issue.
3. His tone establishes ethos by not speaking in a demanding way but rather trying to persuade by not only opinion but facts and opinions from others. The tone is appropriate because it gets the point across while not taking it as far as slandering people who do objectifies women. While still proving that it is wrong and should not be done.
4. He fairly represents the other side by not only using the same tactic that he used for his side which is using opinions while stating facts such as the ratios for male to female recruiters. He could have went into detail expressing the other side as in explaining why there are so many women as recruiters and just a small few or how they pick the women for that job.
5. By him writing as a student, husband, and a father it gives him different aspects to the issue such as him having a daughter and not wanting her to be objectified. A husband with a wife who he does not want to be objectified. As a student because he would want a female friend of his to be objectified. He did convince me of an issue that I did know existed but he put it into a deeper perspective. It will spur the names mentioned due to the fact everything dealing with the issue and how bad it has gotten has involved them.
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