Ethos Pathos And Logos

Essay 2 The Essay “Lean In: What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?” written by Sheryl Sandberg persuades women to come together in the movement to make the world equal. She discusses the various life challenges she faces, and talks about the controversial topic of equal rights and women equality in the work force. She gives her own thoughts on the subject and talks about how Sandberg is wrong. Through her reasoning she tries to use the rhetorical analysis of ethos, logos, and pathos.

Pathos can be described as an experience in life that stirs up emotions of pity sympathy or sorrow. The use of this method can be seen vaguely throughout the book. Sandberg creates an argument drawn from an emotional response as noted “Three or four men jumped

This is probably Sandberg’s worst method blatantly because she gives personal evidence more than statistical. One of the statistics she does point out is “More young women (66 percent) than young men (59 percent) rated success in a high paying career or profession, as important to their lives.” (647). The only thing this brings to perspective is that women care about being more successful in their jobs. A statistic of what gender is more successful than the other would have been more appropriate and supported her argument a little better. Sandberg constantly states the fact that women need to take a stand against men to reach the amount of success they are at. One good statistic she does use states “A study found that of Millennial men and women who work in an organization with a woman in a senior role, only about 20 percent want to emulate her career.” (654). This is a good example of female discrimination but only if she used all her examples like this one she would have a more structured argument on the

Sandberg says “Like me Gayle Tzemach Lemmon[….] was encouraged to prioritize marriage over career” (649). The essence of this argument is that people can easily be persuaded by having more than just Sandberg as an example of having to marry someone before getting a career. She also built the people’s credibility by stating Gayle is the deputy director of the Council on foreign relations’ women and foreign policy program. Sandberg mentioning the rank of Gayle in her profession shows that the opinion of someone with a higher status is more important than an ordinary person. As Hooks argues “Sandberg effectively uses her race and class power and privilege to promote a narrow definition of feminism” (662). Hooks point is that Sandberg emphasizes more on the lack of achievement of women than inequality between the two genders. She has a good point; Sandberg never mentions how successful she is being the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. Hooks concern is that most women will never have the opportunity Sandberg has. Another thing she has a concern for is Sandberg’s dependability on men and racism. The crowd to which Sandberg is addressing is upper white women of companies and highly educated women from privileged classes. Does Sandberg not mention her job experience because she feels the audience would be intimidated by her? Or is it the fact that it would just prove her own arguments