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On Date Rape Camille Paglia Summary

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To agree or disagree with Paglia When you think about rape, you can acknowledge rape is rape, whether its men or women responsible. According to On Date Rape by Camille Paglia, women bring it onto themselves, considering they aren’t aware of their surroundings. Paglia believes women in 1964 were more entitled than today’s youth of women, since they can’t understand to struggle for freedom. She discourages women in today’s generation, as a result of ignorance of, the risk of rape, and how they rather play victims according to her. How can she be so dull, knowing the struggles of women’s recognition? Do we put ourselves back in 1964 in order to understand where she is coming from? And how wrong can she be? Throughout her article, I noticed three problems with fallacies from appeal to authority, hasty generalizations, and fallacious argument. Today’s generation of women like myself know the risks of rape and understand the lack of freedom in this society, even though, Paglia doesn’t seem to think so. For instance, she says, “Today these young women want the freedom that we won, but they don’t want to acknowledge the risk.” …show more content…

For instance, she says, “If I ever got into a dating situation where I was overpowered and raped, I would say, ‘Oh well, I miss read the signals.’ But I don’t think I would ever press chargers.” (Paglia, 145). If someone were to assault you, wouldn’t you try to pull away and stop the situation? Paglia is using a straw man fallacy, since she had a favorable argument, and later attacks her conclusion along side a fallacious argument as her argument doesn’t support her conclusion. Paglia is representing women in 1964 as strong and smart by saying no to an invitation to someone’s room; however, she disempowers herself for allowing rape and blame to herself for the “miss read” of rape. Her conclusion can lead her readers away from the real meaning of

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