Analysis Of Camille Paglia's On Date Rape

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In the article “On Date Rape”, Camille Paglia claims that young women don’t acknowledge the risk of being raped when they pursue their freedom nowadays. Also, she thinks these women doesn’t realize that it’s their responsibility to aware this risk. However, her argument is full of fallacies and her article is ineffective. She can’t
Camille Paglia takes several fallacies of false analogy in her article. She compares “protected, white, middle-class young feminists (3)” with “black or Hispanic women coming from cultures that are fully sexual” and claims that the reason why women are violated by rapists is that they expect the world is safe. This comparison is unfavorable since Camille Paglia tries to push the blame on those raped women by arguing