On date Rape
...oneous thinking. In particular, Paglia writes using hasty generalizations, a mistake which is committed when a person draws a “conclusion about a population based on a sample that is not large enough” (Labossiere). For example in paragraph two of the article “On Date Rape” Paglia writes, “Today these young women want the freedoms that we won, but they don’t want to acknowledge the risk.” And further in paragraph three, “They [the young feminists today] come from a protected, white, middle class world, and they expect everything to be safe.”…these “sexually repressed girls, [are] coming out of pampered homes, and when they arrive at these colleges and suddenly hit male lust, they go, ‘Oh no!’” In these citations the author simply leaps to a conclusion instead of gathering an adequate sample and drawing a justified conclusion. Hasty generalization also occurs because of bias or prejudice (Labossiere). In paragraph three the Paglia states, “Notice its not Black or Hispanic women who are making a fuss about this- they come from cultures that are fully sexual and they are fully realistic about sex.” Camille Paglia has based these arguments on general statements made on the foundation of insufficient evidence. Throughout the entirety of Paglia’s essay, the reader is bombarded by statements and ideas that rationally make no sense. She is manipulating her argument with fallacious reasoning “An argument that sometimes fools human reasoning, but is not logically valid” (http://c2.com). She argues points such as, “You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from danger of sex. You can be overpowered.” One has to ask, “How are these related?” Paglia continues to structure her argument on weak bases and in paragraph five disputes date rape using a hypothetical situation. “I’ve never...