The Hypocrisy of Modern-Day Rhetoric

In "The Hypocrisy of Modern-Day Feminism," author Timothy Rollins provides some rather interesting insight into his view of how feminism nowadays is a heaping pile of hypocritical man haters. The article, no matter how seemingly ridiculous, does employ some level of rhetoric. Perhaps most prominently, the article describes an instance in recent history where a man enlisted in the military had received a jail sentence for a sexual offense. The author, of course, describes this simply as "not being able to keep his pants zipped up," undermining any actual severity of his offense. This plays directly into his subsequent comparison where he details a similar sexual offense case, except performed by a woman. This is where his rhetorical appeal comes into play; Rollins emphasizes the fact that woman who was accused of something similar to what the man did used sexism as a way out. The anecdote provides an airy sense of pity for the man who was convicted, and a consequential feeling of disdain for the woman who used her gender as a way to avoid sentencing. Further in the article the author attempts to use another form of rhetoric; at this point, however, it is actually a fallacy rather than a legitimate form of the former. Rollins describes an instance where someone who is in jail is put to death simply because "they had found God," which is evidently a direct result of how feminists are intolerant of others for their religious views. This is a blatant use of a logical fallacy, because the author is trying to relate two (rather unrelated) ideas. Nonetheless, it is a form of rhetoric; it just happens to be that somewhat rare instance where rhetoric is used to sway others in a somewhat malicious way.