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Answer & Explanation:Read Camille Paglia’s “On Date Rape” and identify fallacies and weakness in reasoning, illustrating with specific examples and citing correctly in-text. This paper will include an introduction and a conclusion, a Works Cited List, and is written in essay form with PIE paragraphs and transitions in 3 doubled spaced pages..new times roman 12 On Date Rape by CAMILLE PAGLIADating is very recent phenomena in world history. Throughout history, women have been chaperoned. As late as 1964, when I arrived in college, we had strict rules. We had to be in the dorm under lock and key by 11 o’clock. My generation was the one that broke these rules. We said, “We want freedom-no more double standard!” When I want to stay at a male friend’s apartment in New York, my aunts flew into a frenzy: “You can’t do that, it’s dangerous” But I said, “No, we’re not going to be like that anymore.” Still, we understood in the 60’s that we were taking a risk.Today these young women want the freedoms that we won, but they don’t want to acknowledge the risk. That’s the problem. The minute you go out with a man, the minute you go to a bar to have a drink, there is a risk. You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.So it is women’s personal responsibility to be aware of the dangers of the world. But these young feminists today deluded. They come from a protected, white, middle-class world, and they expect

everything to be safe. Notice how it’s rarely black or Hispanic women who are making a fuss about this in the media or on campus-they come from cultures that are fully sexual, and they are fully realistic about the dangers of life. But many of these other women are nice, genteel, sexually repressed white girls coming out of pampered homes, and when they arrive college and suddenly hit raw male lust, the go, “Oh, no!”These girls say, “Well, I should be able to get drunk at fraternity party and go upstairs to a guy’s room without anything happening.” And I say, “Oh, really? And when you drive your car to New York City, do you leave your keys on the hood?” My point is that if your car is stolen after you do something like that, yes, the police should pursue the thief and he should be punished. But at the same time, the police –and I-have the right to say to you, “You stupid idiot, what the hell were you thinking?”I mean, wake up to reality. This is male sex. Guess what, it’s hot. Male sex is hot. There’s an attraction between the sexes that we’re not totally in control of. The idea that we can regulate it by passing campus grievances committee rules is madness. My kind of feminism stresses personal responsibility. I’ve never been raped, but I’ve been very vigilant-I’m constantly reading the signals. If I ever got into a dating situation where I was overpowered and raped, I would say, “Oh well, I misread the signals.” But I don’t think I would ever press charges.