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The Women Who Say Oltoo Ethos Pathos Logos

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“We have known for a long time that violence against women is endemic and it has much to do with inequality and discrimination”. A young woman, director of the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) Michele LeVoy, wrote “The Women Who Fear Saying #MeToo”, published in 2017 in Europe. She has been working with many countries, but mainly helps women in Belgium to get basic healthcare. She is arguing that gender-based violence and undocumented women that have been sexually abused are afraid to speak up because they fear that they will be arrested and deported. LeVoy, uses many logos, ethos and pathos in her article to speak her argument. She also uses real-life situations of cause and effect to help her argument, …show more content…

Pathos is a way to appeal the audience with emotions. She tries to grab the reader when she introduces the article with a picture that states, “for undocumented women who experience sexual harassment or abuse, speaking up puts them at risk of arrest or detention, writes LeVoy [Juan Carlos Llorca/AP]” (Women’s Rights). The image she uses puts a visual in the audience’s mind and that fears other women because they don’t want the same thing to happen to them. However, this image does not show where it had come from and why might this woman be in a detention center. Not only was the image an emotion grabber, but her use of words and phrases also tries to help her argument. She says, “we have known for a long time that violence against women is endemic and it has much to do with inequality and discrimination” (Women’s rights). She uses the powerful word of “endemic” meaning being exclusively to show that abuse of gender-based violence and undocumented women are exclusive and only hurts those individuals. Also, the word epidemic can put a shocking appeal to individuals because it’s can be confined to certain individuals, but the words before the strong word bring down that word because no one knows how long the violence of women have been going on for. The image and powerful word choice she uses helps her argument, but the quality of the image and not knowing where it came from weakens her argument. As, the article continues with Pathos, Logos and Ethos, she uses a real-life situation of cause and effect to help pursue her

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