A) Discuss Any Instances of Nonargumentative Persuasion or Pseudoreasoning and Explain

question 89

Essay

A) Discuss any instances of nonargumentative persuasion or pseudoreasoning and explain any slanting techniques you find in the following passage. (We'll comment on features we find obscure, unusual, or tricky.) B) Rewrite the passage in language that is as emotively neutral as possible but still retains the same informational content.
Well, it looks like the wimps are coming out of the woodwork all over the place. If you're a man, the fashionable thing to be these days is "sensitive." Articles with titles like "Babies and Men," "The Divorced Father," and-can you believe it?-"Men Cry Too" are cropping up all over the place. You'd think today's males were unleashing the bottled-up agonies of a couple of thousand generations from the way they like to step into the spotlight and bare their sensitive souls to anybody who'll listen. They say there are more divorces today, and maybe because of the safety of numbers, a divorce is an excuse for a guy to become a softhead; the summons server may as well deliver a license to cry in public.
If a kid wants his modern daddy to come out and toss a ball around, he'll have to drag him out of the kitchen first. After making him take off the apron, of course, so he won't embarrass his kid in front of his buddies.
It's a good thing the women are getting out there and learning to run the world. Today's men are busily forgetting how to do it.

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