TOW #8- Stronger Together

In a riveting and eye-opening article by Harvard Gazette, female soccer players address the objectification that they experience on a day-to-day basis. The women of this article are finally standing up for equality and to end the sexual profiling of everyday women. The authors are all students at Harvard and to build on their credibility, they are all women who play sports.Their specific audience are women in general. The reader can tell because the authors refer to fellow women as "us", "we", and "our". The authors also use parallelism in order to stress their point. "We want your help in combatting this. We need your help in preventing this. We cannot change the past, but we are asking you to help us now and in the future." By using this type of writing, the authors successfully convey their point across. The purpose of parallelism is for repetition to force the readers to hear and understand what the authors are saying. In addition to parallelism, the authors also use emotional syntax to convince the reader to end the objectification of women, "to the men of Harvard Soccer and any future men who may lay claim to our bodies and choose to objectify us as sexual objects, in the words of one of us, we say together: “I can offer you my forgiveness, which is—and forever will be—the only part of me that you can ever claim as yours.'". The use of phrases such as "I can offer you my forgiveness" and "forever will be" are emotional and appeal to the readers emotions. Thus, thanks to the use of parallelism and emotional syntax, the authors successfully convey their message across to the readers.