Camille Paglia is a humanities professor and cultural critic at the San Francisco Examiner. In one of her editorials, “On Date Rape”, she adeptly argues that dating is risk taking and women that are victims of rape or sexual assault are fully responsible for what has happened to them. She simply starts out her essay by talking about her generation in 1960s and claims that they were the ones that broke the strict dating rules. She has gratification in the fight against double standards with other young ladies because she wanted the freedom and equality that women have fought for. The author also mentions that compared to modern generation, while they fought for their rights, they still acknowledged the risk of being assaulted. In her editorial,…show more content… She has the idea that middle-class white women are always coming from protected and safe areas. Paglia stated that Hispanic and black women are not the ones that complain, because they are mainly the victims of attempted or completed date rape and that its not new in their cultures. The author also mentioned that all of these pampered girls say: “Well, I should be able to get drunk at a fraternity party and go upstairs to a guy’s room without anything happening” (Paglia). Because there is no actual evidence other than words, the author made another hasty generalization about young women. She cannot lead other people to blame women for date rape and then say that women can stop rape, because women are the victims, not men. Without any explanations Paglia accused them and said that at least black and Hispanic women do not complain. It is not like black and Hispanic women have a chance to speak up about sexual assault and date rape. Only because she thinks that people cannot control attractions between sexes, doesn’t mean that it is true and that young women are responsible for being raped. The author also presents a fallacy called “begging the question” in her circular argument. In one of her statements she said: “ Notice it’s not black or Hispanic women who are making a fuss about this - they come from cultures that
