A Rhetorical Analysis Of Stop-Splaining By Cathy Young

In the seventies there was a new concept that has been faced by the society which leaded plenty of women to join movements which was women who were against feminism and it is faced until now. So Cathy Young wrote an article about this phenomenon. The Title of the article is called Stop- splaining: what ‘a woman against feminism gets rights. She was very smart at using the hook “The charge that feminism stereotypes men as predators while reducing women to helpless victims certainly doesn’t apply to all feminists — but it’s a reasonably fair description of a large, influential, highly visible segment of modern feminism” as it is very related to the article, grabs the audience attention, manipulates the reader to know more about the topic and

The author’s audience is the whole society because he wanted to pose this problem to all mentalities and all social levels. The author’s position is objective because he showed the opinions of both people who are with and against although he didn’t give his opinion while presenting the problem and he didn’t show that whether he is against or with feminism. He left the decision to the audience by showing the two edges of the problem. The author’s tone is serious as he is presenting an important and common problem that is faced by the whole world every day. The technique the author used in writing the article is analyzing and giving information as he analyzed the issue and gave us more information about it. For the author’s style he used easy and simple words that can help him delivering the idea and also used rhetorical questions to stimulate the audience thinking such as “Should such a movement take back feminism — or, as the new egalitarians suggest, give up on the label altogether because of its inherent connotations of advocating for women only?”. The author’s strategy was writing in a descriptive was in order to find a solution for this problem that satisfies both people who are against or with the issue. What made this article successful is the language and simple style of

And this what I learned from the author which is not being biased toward one point and always search for all aspects of the problem and then decide which side you will be with. The past experience that I faced that is related to the problem is one day I saw a group on Facebook that is called antifeminism so I entered this group out of my curiosity because I wanted to know what is the meaning of antifeminism and how this group of people thinking. So after I entered I found their point of view that nowadays they don’t need feminism in their life as they believe in equality and women nowadays are taking their full rights this was the admins concept. While some people in the group were totally against that and says that women are victims of the society and they are always the weaker sex. So after I saw both opinions in this group I believed that everyone is talking from his/her point of