RA #2 blog post

“The Death of Macho” written by Reihan Salam analyses what is causing the shift of power from man to women. Written in in 2008, in the “Grand New Party: How Conservatives Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream”.  The main cause she wrote this article is to inform the audience how male dominance has failed and their risk taking has taken everyone to a hard crisis. Because of the result power is shifting from Male to women, and women are taking the lead. I think his intend audience is man and women from all over the world. His purpose is to inform how man will not be able to dominate and decide for women on the future. Man will be now seen and be equal as women.

Writer’s strategy:  Salam develops his idea by using the classification and division strategy in his second and third paragraph to persuade the audience. He explains that male is the responsible of the financial crisis that we are all going through. He uses logic reasoning to support his ideas.  Slam states “More than 80 percent of jobless in The United States since November have fallen on man, according to the U.S Bureau of labor Statistic” (630). This shows that there is more man than women unemployed and women are being the support of the house. This gives the women to have more power and seen with a different status. Women are less likely to lose their jobs.  

  

Writer’s strategy:  Salam develops his idea in his fifth paragraph by using the narration mode to persuade the audience. He narrates the fail of macho and how women have taken the power to save their country’s economy.  Salam states “When Iceland’s economy imploded, the country’s voters did what no country has done before:  Not only they throw out the all-male elite who oversaw the making of the crisis, they named the world’s first openly lesbian leader as their prime minister.” (630). Women are taking serious and they stating to take responsibility for what mas has cause. They are taking more serious their jobs and being more responsible.

  

Writer’s strategy:  Salam used the process mode to develop his idea to persuade the audience in his article. The shift to post-macho will only give the macho the option to adapt to the new era.  Salam comets “ the first adaptation: men embracing women as equal partners and assimilating to the new cultural sensibilities, institution, and egalitarian  arrangements that entails” (633). This means that man and woman will have to work together. They now will have to both the same social statues.

Claim: This is a grate article and interesting. He uses different modes on this article and gives really good examples of. i learned some new knowledge from this article that I didn’t know. The part that caught my attention was the logic part when he talks how the male will be affected psychological because of the shift of power from male to women. I believe that all man will be affected by this shift in some way but the most affected will the people that Kimmel describes in his article “Bros Before Hoes: The guy Code”. I believe this kind of man will not accept the idea that they will have the same statues in society and at home. I don’t think the shift of power will affect me because I have never seen women really different from the man.