Rhetorical Analysis Of Emily Shire

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Rhetorical Analysis of Emily Shire “Is It Now Slutoween for 7-Year-Olds? Really?”
In “Is It Now Slutoween for 7-Year-Olds? Really?” Emily Shire addresses the question of whether or not to wear gender-prescription Halloween costume for girls. Published on September 29, 2015, this is one of the many articles that Shire has contributed to thedailybeast.com, most of which covers popular culture, women’s issues, health and sex and date. There appear to be no Kairos event. However, Shire against little girl to wear costumes that are provocative. The target audiences of thedailybeast.com is women. Shire is a reporter and cheat sheeter for The Daily Beast. Her work has appeared in The Week, The Atlantic, Salon, Slate, and The Forward. She is a writer …show more content…

According to Shire women are brouhaha over Halloween costumes for two reasons, she then explains the two camps are: a) slut-shaming women enjoy wearing risqué costumes and reveling in a flamboyant display of sexiness one night a year b) by exploring the pressure on women to de-robe and conform to some nautical/law enforcement authority/janitorial variation on the sex kitten fantasy. Shire mentioned Lin Kramer wrote her letter that on Party City’s website boys costumes that are related to professions are more than girls. She also point out that she recalled she wore many feminine costumes during her childhood and grow up to be an independent-minded feminist. Shire acknowledges that according to Dr. Michael the influence of Halloween costumes could add up. However, Shire shifts to talk about how girls costumes looks nothing like an actual occupation while boy’s costume do. She also claims the costumes were looser twenty years ago. Shire concludes the great joys of Halloween are to dress up and costume stores should offer full-range of options to explore for both …show more content…

The source is “Dr. Michael Brody, a child psychiatrist and chair of the media committee for the american academy of child psychiatry told the daily beast that halloween costumes is like role-playing and it effect the way kids grow up.” citing this source boosts shire’s credibility by showing that she has provided expert opinions to support her claim. She also reference to her own personal experience of what she dress up when she were young and how she became a independent-minded feminist because of that to introduce and support the issue, which shows that she has a personal
Adding to her ethos appeals, shire uses facts ,she points out that in Kramra included in her letter that in the “classic costumes sections for toddlers on Party City’s website around 30 percent of the costumes for boys are related to professions while just under 7 percent are in the girls’ sections.These facts are a logically support of her claim that halloween has somehow become a lightning rod for gender politics. The details and the numbers build an appeal to logos and impress upon the reader that this is a problem should be discuss and

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