Analysis Of Against Dicktitude And Its Rhetorical Article

Against Dicktitude and its Rhetorical Effectiveness

“To be or not to be” a dick to women in your life, is the question that troubles most men and fathers. This article primarily appeals pathos in an attempt to persuade you but it surely failed as a result of conflicting arguments. This article uses logic to persuade but the appeal to logos is much more persuasive. The purpose of this article is unclear due to conflicting arguments within the text between the body and conclusion. But it is to either to refrain from being a dick in the main body of the article with the conclusion using pathos and logic to say it 's not bad to be a dick.

The Writer first appeals to logical thinking in reasoning with a young girl that had been childhood friends

In this quote a writer includes this as an appeal to pathos for the reader to feel empathy to the father as he attempts to show his son it’s wrong to be a dick to women. The writer places this:“First of all, in order to do the job properly it might help if I were, myself, not a dick”(line 29-30) to show logical thinking by the father in an attempt to gain credibility. The appeal to pathos in this section of text it very vibrant : “I can actually remember her telling me, three days into a weeklong period of silence and unreturned phone calls that followed some date she thought had gone unusually well, a throb in her voice, ‘Promise me that you will never do this to a girlfriend, when you have a girlfriend. If you say that you are going to call her,you have to call her.’ ” (lines 39-44). The writer attempts to draw emotion from the reader by the father 's love for his mother and seeing her in emotional pain is something that is painful for even the son. It’s bringing the fact the being a dick to just one person doesn 't affect only that one person in many

This phrase in the last paragraph is where things get contradictory. This quote is appealing to logos and pathos by think about the future of his son and how teaching him to be, or not to be a dick to girls and how that will affect his relationships for the rest of his life. Along with the statement “I am doing the kid no favor” he implies that teaching him not to be a dick is useless and that it will result negatively for his son. The author writes “Desirable women so often seem to go for the dicks among us; in my days of active pursuit I was brushed off far more than a few times with the information that I was too nice.”(lines 117-119). In this phrase the writer applies pathos with an emotional grasp from his own experiences over whether or not to be a dick. While reading this phrase the thought of being a dick is a favorable one since he did not have any luck with seeking a relationship and being