Camille Paglia's On Date Rape

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Evaluating an Extended Argument “On Date Rape” After reading this editorial piece entitled “on Date Rape” by Camille Paglia, the humanities professor and cultural critic at San Francisco examiner. Lack of knowledge, incomprehension of social customs and treatment guarded as caution can lead to unfortunate misleading perceptions within a diverse culture. I found out that Paglia’s article is undependable due to the several fallacies such as poising well, appealing to fear, false analogy and hasty generalization. Paglia begins, the article to appeal to authority, when she says that, “my generation was the one that broke these rules” (Paglia 1). As if her generation founded women right. She further, explains the responsibilities which women should be aware and the expected luckless outcome if they are not.…show more content…
She is basically saying that women should not go out with men because they are dangerous. Her fear perceptions were, since she was residing with this fallacy during her years, she assumed that modern women should have faith in that as well. Perhaps, she used antagonistic descriptions when she said “black and Hispanic women come from cultures that are fully sexual and they are fully realistic about sex” (Paglia 3). That was Paglia opinion even though she has no evidence to back it up She compare black women and Hispanic women, that’s a false analogy; though they believe may be similar but they both share a different culture. Paglia, forces her opinion onto readers without offering logical analysis, when she utilizes a fallacious tactic called “poisoning the well.” She also defines the broad population of “young feminists” as white and middle-class, with idealistic anticipation of safety. She poisons the well by injecting her judgmental generalizations and an attack on women is
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