A) Discuss any instances of nonargumentative persuasion or pseudoreasoning and explain any slanting techniques you find in the following passage. (We'll comment on features we find obscure, unusual, or tricky.) B) Rewrite the passage in language that is as emotively neutral as possible but still retains the same informational content."It [the feminist movement] was crazy. The lunacy, unfortunately, wasn't confined to sex. Male reviewers abased themselves before Miss [Susan] Brownmiller's book Against Our Will, and the male editors of Time magazine, in a spasm of liberal gallantry, named her as one of its 12 Women of the Year, thereby atoning for five decades of Men of the Year."-Joseph Sobran, "The End of Feminism"

What will be an ideal response?


Not as "macho" as the previous one, but not without its slanders.

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