Summary Of Margaret Wente's Globe And Mail Article

Margaret Wente’s Globe and Mail article on what women could learn from men presents itself as dogmatic and controversial. Wente’s intent is to persuade their readers into believing that men have become a scapegoat for society yet women could learn lessons from men. Although Wente does have a clear purpose in explaining what women could learn from men, her argument is weakened by her lack of substantial evidence and her appeal to emotions being manipulative.
Recently the world has adopted the position of attacking men for everything they do however, women could learn a few things from men. Wente presents many attributes which women could adopt from men in order to be seen in a better light in society. For example she argues “Men get to the point” because “They don’t think emotions are all that interesting. Women are overly sensitive to emotions.” (Par. 4). Wente believes that if women were to suppress their sensitivity to emotions society would function more smoothly because more things

The language that she uses in the article is supposed to create knee jerk emotional relations in her readers yet at the same time connect to her female audience. For example she uses phrasing like rape culture, manspreading and mansplaining which makes her article appear controversial and entices readers to have automatic emotional responses to these phrases. In addition to this she also uses the words “we” and “us” in order to make her female audience feel connected and almost obligated to agree with her point of few. This can be problematic because “white the appeal to emotion can be effective, it can cometimes come across as manipulative.” (Prinsen, 2). In both examples Wente’s language appears to be manipulative and it is if she is trying to bully her readers into agreeing with her argument which could potentially result in her readers dismissing her argument