TeAnn Smith

9/22/18
English 101
Maple
Why Prinyaka Chapro’s argument is more effective than Emins’s
Since the pre-historic times women have played the role of being around as an asset to

man. Still today there's a gender imbalance between how men and women are seen in society.

Therefore, people like Priyanka Chapro and Olivia Emin address the injustices they see still

today. They influence their peers and constituents through heavy use word play in their speeches

and evoking a conversation that can be controversial. Emin a young student more specifically

indicates to her peers how slut shaming is a main problem of sexism today. Then Priyanka a

well-known actor and UNICEF advocate, talks about the how the education system lacks room

for women. Both speakers are females who have witness and had been victims of gender bias.

However, Priyanka’s argument is more valid than Emins because she doesn’t argue her claim

with emotional experiences; she effectively focuses on how woman have been systematically

susceptible to injustice; she supports her claims using statistics of inequality in education,

incorporating her own brand to raise awareness on social inequality and includes a story of her of

encounter with sexism; in all to evoke her audience to see the problematic doings of sexism.

Priyanka tells her speech to a large audience, its televised for the world. In her argument

she talks about some of the things she has endured being a woman in the television industry. She

has been judged on her darker skin complexion and her body while many of her male cast

members had more leniency on their looks. There had been an instance when she had been told

that since she was a female she was easily replaceable in a film. All uses of pathos that shows her

experience. To add to her use of pathos, she discusses growing up in India and helping her
family take care of lower-class citizens, she had often witnessed seeing many girls quite school,

get denied health care because the social statues of a a female was inadequate to men. She has

even seen young girl prepare to get married after hitting puberty. “Meanwhile they boys continue

to live their lives as kids.” (Prynaka) As the speaker talked about her life as a woman she

connects to the audience of women who can also relate to being treated unfairly by a man. She

uses emotion in her voice when talking about the everyday lives of female children, using

children to bring the emotional aspect to her point of stating sexism is emphasized at a young

age. With that she includes examples of synecdoche when talking about the role of men her tone

is sensationalistic. She motivates her crowd to see the socio economic aspects of 3rd world

secism vs developed countries to emphasizes the nessity to understand how sexism is worst fot

the impoverished. However her tone is of gentleness with concern as shes address’s her concern.

Though the topic of gender bias was very popular in 2014, it’s something that’s still very

prevalent in India today. “Women just don't have a voice” (Priyanka); that’s due to systematic

oppression.

More than 15 million girls primary school age will never learn how to read and write

compared to 10 million boys who don't. The education system is also another way that Priyanka

evokes the audience to understand that the issue of sexism runs deep into education.

Emphasizing on how education should be a choice and is something that should not be an

unreachable attainment. Priyanka says that tend to women, serve as the motherly figure, the one

who takes care of the house and children and that would be it. People, especially in third world

countries lack rights to education as it is. That leaves many female children to be uneducated,

due to the fact the male holds a role of being the base of the family. Therefore, since boys are
valued more highly than girls and it has been that way for years, sexism in education is rooted

deep.

From the lack of support due to male dominance, Priyanka has created her own

foundation geared to support education for women. Her foundation is geared toward motivating

and uplifting women who has endeared some sort of tribulation due to gender bias. In short, her

foundation tends to health and education. As a woman and a celebrity Priyanka shares with her

audience vulnerability and openness about why she feels the way she does about the role of

women. How her own career has been conflicted by stereotypes and doubt on her accountability,

being that she was a woman “on set”. Her brand is backed up by UNICEF and she is a UNICEF

ambassador. “Girls have the power to change the world” (Chapro) is uplifts and motivates her

crowd. She speaks to and for the voiceless as she puts it. She uses her platform to encourage

people to recognize the abuse of women by using repetition of words like “Power” and

“advocate” in which influences women to succumb negative implications of stereotypes of

gender.

In Emin speech she speaks on the intolerable acts of her peers, how words such as slut

have double standards. She says, “Women in society aren't allowed to be explicitly sexual on the

grounds of lacking morality unlike guys”. Thus also is the start to her logic behind her claim.

Then for her use of pathos, she starts of saying “we are smashing the confidence of young girls

each and every time we stand by and let them be called sluts”. Relating to how young girls are

subjected to slut shamming before they hit puberty. Her words are very powerful, they can also

be termed militant. She brings he repeatedly uses young girls and slut shamming in the same

sentence. Then after stating that she gets into her experience. From then she includes examples

of how slut shaming is problematic. “Male peers don’t think”, or “Boys are offended by women
standing up for themselves” (Emin). These generalizations repeat throughout the speech, she

continues to make statements and not clarify herself about them.

Therefore, Emin anger towards her claim overshadows her ethics behind her argument,

she doesn’t address any ethical issues. Other than her being a girl who has been subjected slut

shaming. Her argument is only supported by experience. Not that it isn't valid however, her

emotional aspects are redundant, and they don’t vary in context. She constantly talks about men

and how they are the suspects of slut shaming. Basically “men are the bad guys” in the situation,

it’s almost contradicting when talking about one gender oppressing another as she degrades men

and generalize them. To further explain, the point of her speech is to end slut shaming. There for

when Emin talks addresses how using the word “slut” is heavily wrong. She addresses men only

and only point out her feelings behind it without context of the history sexism. That could leave

the audience to question, their freedom of speech. Furthermore, Emin is also young and she is

specifically speaking to her male peers. She had experienced slut shaming and it had s lead her to

see the problem of gender bias, just not the global scale like Priyanka.

To conclude, Prinkaya gives as story, she gives her audience back round on her topic and

validates her statement with statistics. She doesn’t come off as angry but engaged in her topic.

Emin and Priyanka both want to prove their point on the inequality of women today. But the

word play, tone and figurative language used by Priyanka allows for women to relate to the topic

and gain a sense of confidence from it. The topic of education is relatable to everyone and

pryanka holistic approach is motivational. Priyanka does that and still incorporates all three

aspects of ethos, pathos and logos. She calmly speaks to her audience and uses more than one

aspect when proving her points. Thus, her argument stronger because she can validate it better.
 Work Cited

Variety, director. Full Power of Women Speech. Priyanka Chopra- Full Power of Women
Speech, Variety, 13 Oct. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCwKM6uB71I.
Emin, Olivia. “My Class Speech About Slut-Shaming (And What Happened When I Gave It).”
The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 21 Feb. 2015,
www.huffingtonpost.com/hello-giggles/my-class-speech-about-slut-shaming-and-what-
happened-when-i-gave-it_b_6343950.html.