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Rhetorical Analysis Of Gender Equality Is Your Issue Too

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Emma Watson, best known to us as an actress playing in many popular movies like Harry Potter and Beauty and The Beast, has stepped out as an Ambassador for UN Women Goodwill. This organization is campaigning for gender equality in a campaign they are calling “HeForShe.” She is giving a speech for the HeForShe campaign at the United Nations Headquarters located in New York. Emma Watson used her platform of being such popular actress to address problems with feminism. Her speech “Gender Equality is Your Issue Too” was very expressive and awakening in such a way to enliven her audience.
Beginning off her speech, Watson reaches out for help wanting to end inequality and for that to happen she needs everyone to be involved. With this impression …show more content…

In her speech she mentions she was called bossy, as sexualized by the press, her friends dropped out of sports due to feeling “muscly”, and once reaching adulthood her male friends couldn’t express their feelings. Then, is when she decided she was a feminist. It is important to share such issues that she encountered. Her being personal and raw with the audience made this speech strong.
I believe she applies pathos when she reflects on herself saying “I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive.” She states that even being from Britain she still feels she should be paid the same, make decisions about her own body and afforded the same respect as men. “No one country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.”(Watson)
Rounding up to the rear of her speech she uses logos when she cites a speech that Hillary Clinton made in 1995 about women’s rights. She reminded the audience of a speech given over 20 years ago to show that women’s rights are still less important. While conveying the speech given by Clinton she was asking questions only to answer them herself which showed the serious issue of

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