Taking the RiskIn the article “On a Date Rape” by Camille Paglia, she creates a controversial discussion about how women have achieved freedom over the years and blames the young feminist for being “too privileged ”. Her belief is that women in general abuse the social freedom for which she fought so virtuously. He also said that his generation was aware of the risk they were taking, while today's generation is not. However, he blames any young woman who finds herself in a dangerous situation for the tragedy that follows; furthermore, Paglia's article is unreliable due to the overuse of several fallacies such as hasty generalization, false analogy, false cause, correct balance, false dilemma, slippery slope, and straw men. In the first paragraph, Paglia states that women of her generation understood the risk involved in dating. Even if today's young women are not aware of it, she said: “We want freedom: no more double standards! When I went to stay at a friend's apartment in New York, my aunts went into a frenzy: “...
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