Response

1-Social perspective

This text is a blog posted on October 9, 2013 by Carol Anne Grayson. First of all, the date 2013 shows that it reflects the current times and talks about an issue that affects directly our modern society. In her argumentative blog, the author reveals how people (like Malala) are being manipulated by the exploitative system we are living in. In addition to that, Grayson evokes the problem of inequality; in fact, some victims are supported by media whereas others are totally neglected. “How different to the many women that have been harmed in Britain and received no such support.”

2- Emotional Perspective

It is clear that Grayson is mad while writing her blog. She uses her angry tone about the whole issue of gender justice and emphasizes on the fact that all victims should be supported equally.

  Those who claim to support gender justice should ask themselves why is it that some cases are projected into the media whilst thousand of other cases are suppressed by government including by one of the same politicians so supportive to Malala.

Furthermore, the author is resentful and expresses her feeling of belligerence toward the exploitation of women. According to her, Malala is an “exploited schoolgirl” by the West but she is still inexperienced to realise it. She uses a sarcastic tone toward the hypocrite politicians when she says: “Let’s hope Malala’s story will not be used to keep occupation going a little longer. “

Note that it is important to interpret the value of the diction she uses. For example, she uses the word “claim” in the 18^th paragraph to emphasize on the fact that we are far from achieving gender justice, although we think that we did.

3-Rhetorical perspective:

This blog is argumentative and its rhetorical mode is impersonal since it addresses a question that is not related to the author’s personal life. Grayson often uses long sentences to capture the readers’ attention and to encourage them to continue reading. Note that there is a parallelism in paragraph 14: “Malala the book, Malala the film, Malala the award nominee, Malala the portrait”. Carole uses this parallelism (“Malala the “ +  a name ) mainly to emphasize on the wide importance that is given to Malala. In addition to that, this parallelism adds rhythm to the blog.

4- Logical perspective:

The author’s overall claim is that the exploitation of Malala isn’t helping the cause of women in the world: “This does not help the cause of any woman while one is exploited and others are being suppressed!”. On the contrary, it is promoting injustice; in fact, some victims like Malala receive a special care after their trauma, whereas most of the women, who have also been through a lot, are left struggling alone. In addition to that, she claims that the West is extremely dissimulator for marketing Malala who “has become a very marketable western commodity”; and what is even worse is that people aren’t realizing that this manipulation should come to an end. “I doubt she fully realizes the extent to which she is being exploited by her new “mentors” in the UK.”  The evidence the writer stated in her blog is convincing because of all the structured arguments she gave,all the past experiences she talked about and her valid deductive reasoning.

5- Ethical perspective:

The author emphasizes on the fact that Malala is being glorified whereas on the other hand, other victims are being forgotten and neglected. This highlights the problem of gender justice that remains a major unethical issue in our actual world. According to Grayson, all women should have equal rights, wether they are “popular” or not. She says that  “we are now into the dangerous cult of celebrity”, however if we truly want to achieve gender justice, popularity shouldn’t matter.