Summary Of From Now On Let Women Kill Their Own Spiders By David Barry

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In his editorial article, “From Now On, Let Women Kill their Own Spiders,” author David Barry claims that communication between both genders should be improved for the better understanding of each other. David Barry supports this claim by including examples of how women are stereotypical to men, and should be aware of both sides can find a way to cope with this situation and fix it. Barry’s purpose is to appeal to both men and women in order to make them come to the realization that both genders are capable of making mistakes, and also finding solutions to these problems that they face. David Barry uses rhetorical devices to appeal to both men and women from all over the world, in hopes of assisting them and ending these stereotypes about the …show more content…

Also, the use of satire is placed to express the negative stereotype of how men are lazy and can never do anything on their own. There could be a refrigerator full of food and they can can still continue to ask if there is any food. All in all, the author included these two rhetorical devices, dialogue and satire, to set the topic and show the readers how women and their stereotypical mindsets truly feel about …show more content…

Dave Barry uses ethos and logos in the article to emphasize that men are great thinkers even though women think otherwise. For example, in the article Dave says, “We should be grateful that men think so much, because over the years they have thought up countless inventions that have made life better for all people, everywhere.” Dave uses ethos here because he’s saying that women should be grateful for men because of the inventions that they have thought up that both men and women both use. Dave Berry also uses logos in his article when he says, “New Scientist magazine stating that Russian scientists… designing a cocktail of bacteria to digest astronauts’ cotton and paper underpants.” This is logos because he says that Russian scientists are more overthinking scientists because they are literally designing an underwear eating bacteria, so men are all thinkers but in time their mental talents will find the