the three types of appeals they’re talking about are ethos / pathos / logos.

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ETHOS, PATHOS AND LOGOS
Lift and Separate— Why is feminism still so divisive? By Ariel Levy
Bra burning—the most famous habit of women’s libbers—caused a fair amount of consternation back in the seventies, and the smoke has lingered. Wives and mothers were torching the most intimate accessory of control; what might they put a match to next?
Comment: Emo: Since it involves a certain group and ignites the unity factor
“Often today those who cherish family life feel, even in their own homes, under constant assault,” the cultural critic Michael Novak wrote in 1979. The goals of the women’s-liberation movement, he saw, were incompatible with the structure of the traditional family. That is why bra burning became the most durable and unsettling image of modern feminism.
Comment: Log: This sentence gives a reason.
Therefore, it may be worth noting that it never actually happened. In 1968, at a protest against the Miss America pageant, in Atlantic City, feminists tossed items that they felt were symbolic of women’s oppression into a Freedom Trash Can: copies of Playboy, high-heeled shoes, corsets and girdles.
Comment: Log: This sentence gives a reason.
Lindsy Van Gelder, a reporter for the Post, wrote a matter about the protest in which she compared the trashcan procession to the burning of draft cards at antiwar marches, and a myth was born.
Comment: Eth: Here Lindsy establishes her credibility as a reporter.
In her engaging tour d’horizon “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present” (Little, Brown; $27.99), Gail Collins quotes Van Gelder’s lament: “I shudder to think that will be my epitaph—‘she invented bra burning.’”
It is as if feminism were plagued by a kind of false-memory syndrome. Where we think we have been on our great womanly march forward often has less to do with the true coordinates than with our fears and desires.
Comment: Emo: Deals with what a women feels in such vulnerable times.
We tend to imagine the fifties and the early sixties, for example, as a time when most American women were homemakers. “In reality, however, by 1960 there were as many women working as there had been at the peak of World War II, and the vast majority of them were married,” Collins writes. Forty per cent of wives whose children were old enough to go to school had jobs. This is not just about the haze of retrospection: back then, women saw themselves as homemakers, too. Esther Peterson, President Kennedy’s Assistant Secretary of Labor,
Comment: Eth: Esther establishes themselves as Assistant Secretary of Labor.
asked a high-school auditorium full of girls how many of them expected to have a “home and kids and a family.” Hands shot up.
Comment: Emo: Deals in the collective girl emotions.
Next, Peterson asked how many expected to work, and only a few errant hands were raised.
Comment: Emo: Deals in the collective girl emotions.
Finally, she asked the girls how many of them had mothers who worked, and “all of those hands went up again,”
Comment: Emo: Deals in the collective Girl emotions.
Peterson wrote in her 1995 memoir, “Restless.” Nine out of ten of the girls would end up having jobs outside the house, she explained, “but each of the girls thought that she would be that tenth girl.”
There are political consequences to remembering things that never happened and forgetting things that did.
Comment: Log: Giving a reason here
If what you mainly know about modern feminism is that its proponents immolated their underwear, you might well arrive at the conclusion that feminists are “obnoxious,” as Leslie Sanchez does in her new book, “You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe: Sarah, Michelle, Hillary and the Shaping of the New American Woman” (Palgrave; $25). “I don’t agree with the feminist agenda,” Sanchez writes. “To me, the word ‘feminist’ epitomizes the zealots of an earlier and more disruptive time.” Here is what Sanchez would prefer: “No bra burning, No belting out Helen Reddy. Just calm concern for how women were faring in the world.”
The world that Sanchez has in mind is really Washington, D.C. Sanchez has a day job as a Republican political analyst; perhaps this is why she measures progress solely by the percentage of people with government jobs who wear bras. Her great hope is that there will be a female President in her lifetime, and she bitterly regrets that the former governor of Alaska did not make it to the West Wing.
Comment: Emo: As it targets the emotions of all women to see a woman in the highest position
“Most of us are Sarah Palins to one degree or another,” Sanchez asserts. Palin “so very clearly reflected the lifestyle choices, hard work ethic, and traditional values that so many women admire.”
Comment: Emo: Targets women’s choices.
One sign of our cultural memory disorder is that you can describe a female governor of a state as “traditional” and not are laughed at. Conservative career women are eager to describe themselves in those terms. “I do not like labels, but, if there is a label for me, it would be ‘traditional,’ and I am very proud to be traditional,’’ Cindy McCain told voters when her husband was running for President. Since 2000, she has been the chairperson of Hensley & Company, one of the largest distributors of beer in this country, with annual revenues exceeding three...