Why Nice Guys Finish Last Analysis

1.Based on Serono’s ideas rape culture is something that cannot be solved with “single-tact solutions”. The “men-as-predator/sexual aggressor assumption” (Serano 422) allows women to believe that the man is always a predator, and therefore leads to men being aggressive leading to the cycle of rape culture. Overall to change rape culture we must change this assumption that currently dominates out thinking.

Upon reviewing the details of Why Nice Guys Finish Last, the author Julia Serano emphasizes that with society being the way it is, men tend to become “bad boys” because society and culture is brought up to believe that the way to win a womans heart and attention is by being sexually aggressive. Julia Serano argues that in order to recognize rape culture, we must first learn to understand the predator / prey mindset. In this essay, I will argue that in order to neutralize the predator / prey mindset, society needs to stop looking at women as the prey and the men as the predators. I believe that if society learns how to overlook men as being hunters and women as the prey, that would make the amount of rape occurrences drop massively.

Roxane Gay, author of the article entitled “Bad Feminist”, is a very accomplished American feminist writer. Her publication of “Bad Feminist” in 2012 gained national public attention (1). Feminism, as defined in the dictionary, is “the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes” (2), but Gay explains throughout her article that being a feminist is not just as simple as agreeing with this need for gender equality. The feminist label is too narrow and because of this the feminist movement is breaking apart. In this piece, Gay addresses how our society currently defines feminism and explains why this definition does not encompass everybody that it should.

Take a look at this study done by researchers at the University of Connecticut in 2005. A group of seventh graders were asked to read information on a website on the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and evaluate the site’s credibility and trustworthiness. All but one student deemed the site to be credible due to extensive cited sources, pictures, and a wide array of scientific words. The truth? The site was a hoax designed just for this experiment (Galagan). One might ask, why weren’t most of the students able to recognize this? That’s because these students didn’t have a basic knowledge and

Journals – A journal is subject based and is written by experts and professionals. A journal is usually researched based and will be based upon facts with references/ evidence to support the writer’s findings. Journals are known as periodical as they are published at regular intervals which could also make them a better resource than a book. The resource (Psychology review, volume 20, April 2015) was

“Feminism has not prepared them for this,” states Camille Paglia in her essay “Rape: A Bigger Danger than Feminists Know.” The “them” in Paglia’s statement is referring to women, and she is discussing the topic of date rape. Susan Jacoby, on the other hand, writes in her article “Common Decency,” that feminism is not responsible for the rising cases of date rape, but that it is the men who are at fault. Paglia’s argument is insightful and accurate, but Jacoby’s writing is flawed and not well-researched. Paglia includes all rhetorical appeals and persuasive techniques, while Jacoby lacks in some departments of persuasiveness and fills the gap with logical fallacies. Comparing both of these papers will help the reader see why

Today, it is very easy to believe anything seen on the internet. With numerous resources available instantaneously, it is impossible to know which ones are misleading, and which ones are legitimate. In the end, it all comes down to being able to distinguish a fake source, from a real source.

Throughout the article Kilbourne was effective in using logos, pathos, and ethos to establish exigence driving the creation of Kairos and the need to respond to the crisis of increased sexual assault and rape and the need to act now to change the way advertising is used to target both the young and the old. Even though she is effective in creating these appeals she detracts from her own purpose by alienating one of her primary audience. In her article on multiple occasions she makes comments such as “there is no danger for most men” and “Men are not likely to be raped, harassed, or beaten ( that is to say, men to be presumed to be heterosexual are not, can very few men are abused in these ways by women)” (Kilbourne, 165) these biased opinions as there is no research to support these claims as there is with other claims in her article distracts from her purpose and gets lost in all the rhetoric. The one-sided view of this article makes it hard to read and even harder to agree with the purpose of the message. If it is in fact her intent is to gain agreement from her primary audience; advertising agencies and government official; she would be ineffective as she loses all common ground and goodwill by including so many biased statements in her article. If a government official attempted to use this article to act now to the exigencies of rapes on college campus they would not gain support from a portion of the population particular heterosexual males how have been victims of

The biggest forms of information given to you through using the internet would include blogs, podcasts, and videos. The sources I use to evaluate when doing research on the internet is authenticated speaker, speaker qualified, authority, other found credible sources, accuracy, last revision, and it’s current these are some factor I could think of. The topic I chose has credible sources and also reliability sources that are already evaluated and uploaded on podcast, blog, and video.

While advances in technology can be beneficial, the growing need to have answers at our fingertips has contributed to issues with the credibility of websites. The internet is bursting with information that can be obtained through search engines or databases. However, problems arise when it comes to determining the accuracy behind the content obtained because some of

Charles M. Blow was born on August 11, 1970. He was raised in Gibsland, Louisiana before later moving to Park Slope, Brooklyn to raise his own family as a single father of three kids. Blow graduated from Grambling State University, and he became a graphics editor for the New York Times in 1994. He also worked as a graphic director and art director at both National Geographic and the Times. Blow is currently a visual Op-Ed columnist who works for the New York Times.

Everyone has their own ways of obtaining information about every topic imaginable. There is not one set way of accumulating information, but there are some ways that allow better quality of information to be obtained. For example, some people use the media to find information on the Affordable Care Act and others use reputable academic sources to do the same. The media’s main focus for covering the Affordable care Act is for political reasons, where academia uses information about the Affordable Care Act in order to understand various cultural assumptions.

According to the New York Times, eighty-two percent of Americans don’t identify as feminists, though eighty-five percent of those polled said that women and men should be treated equally, which is the basis of feminism (The New York Times). This schism happens in part because much of the media highlights radical feminists, or “feminazis” as some refer to them, and they become the face of feminism. Stories focused on extremists such as Valerie Solanas, who created a manifesto for a hypothetical feminist society, “Society for Cutting Up Men,” garner more attention and excitement than moderate, rational approaches. In her “SCUM Manifesto,” Solanas said, “The male….is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than the apes….To call a man an animal is to flatter

The article that I picked was, Social pressure to appear masculine leads straight men to have unwanted sex. To summarize, basically spoke about how many men feel pressure to have to sex even when they don’t want to. As a society, we tend to think that if guy doesn’t want to have sex with you, “well he must be gay and doesn’t know it yet”. So as result men will have sex with women who they don’t find attractive. And when they refuse to have sex they battle with their reputation on the definition of manhood with society. And to me it’s a shame that people have to look to society for the definition of manhood, instead within themselves. Isn’t more masculine when a man knows how to say to no to women that don’t find attractive? That is

Feminist scholarship has argued that rape ideology encourages and justifies sexual coercion, trivializes sexual violence and demeans and devalues women who have experienced sexual assault. The foundation of this argument is based on women's experiences in patriarchal societies. Due to the fact that