The Man is one of her eighteen songs on the Lover album. This song highlights the difference between the treatment of men and women in all industries, especially the music industry. In Taylor Swift's song, The Man, she uses ethos by relating her own life and success in the song, pathos by using emotional statements throughout the song, and logos by laying out the logic in her argument. This song uses ethos in several ways throughout the song. It is known as a “feminism anthem”. When this song was released, Swift references instances of her own life in this song. She establishes her credence as someone who knows what she's talking about. She uses phrases like “good ideas” and “power moves” to describe how she would have been praised as a man instead of hated on …show more content…
There are emotional statements throughout the song that are primed to allow the audience to empathize with Swift and feel her frustration with the system she's arguing against. "I'm so sick of running as fast as | can/Wondering if I'd get there quicker if I was a man/And I'm so sick of them coming at me again/Cause if I was a man/Then I'd be the man”. These lyrics are describing the way Swift feels like no matter what she does, she will ever be as far ahead as a man. She also feels like if she was a man things would be very different for her. Another lyric from the song that pulls the pathos out is, "When everyone believes ya/What's that like?". This shows that in the world, women are not believed for what they say and can be called liars. This is a struggle for many women, especially famous women. "So it's okay that I'm mad", Swift gives herself permission to be angry and is inviting the audience to be angry along with her. It is easy for people to agree and side with someone who they already support and lots of people support Swift already. This song uses pathos the most of all the rhetorics because it is such an emotional song and one that all women can relate