In this article, "Pick Up Lines Will Save the World," Barry's sarcastic insight of the male's role on 'making the first move' claims that not only do men try their best to sound enraged and intellectual, but also that women tend to be a little too picky when it comes to their pick up line preference. His use of strong ethos and logos throughout the passage support his claim that even though men can have an odd approach when attempting to speak to a female, they also try their best, but because of how they come off they are just down casted and laughed at.
While Barry realizes that women must endure "childbirth," "wait in line for public-restroom stalls," and have a "psychotic obsession for shoe color," he believes that "nature has given males the heaviest burden of all." The exaggeration here is very great because if any man was forced to carry a baby for nine months, experience mood swings, have gut wrenching cramps during their period, and endure crazed rollercoaster emotions that are brought on by life in general, than I believe that statement would have never been thought. These two things, women's struggles and men's pick up lines, do not come close to being on the same playing field.
Barry believes that the burden of making the first move is the heaviest, even compared with women's struggles, because they have a risk of being "shot down." Women have a risk of death when it comes to childbirth and they also have to endure pain for an extended amount of time consistently throughout each month. Now, when compared to that, how can that be the biggest burden? I do not agree with these statements because many women make the 'first move,' but women are forced to endure painful things physically, so why can't men take a little initiative on this? Must women do everything?
Pulling in to his logos, Barry supports his beliefs with an example of the mistreatment of males by the female species from an episode of Discovery Channel. Basically from this show, he manages to suggest that in nature, whatever "species" it is, the male makes a fool out of himself while the female acts uninterested and snickers to her "girlfriends" about this ghastly experience. He used several examples which related his point to different aspects of nature. These examples, even his use of ethos when describing his personal experience, showed that not only was he supported by men in general, but by nature as well.
From Barry's view, men have it the worst because they are instantly shot down and made a fool out of by women who are unappreciative of just how hard men try. Well, in tying into some men's true intentions, he says that women should cut men some slack and accept their ridiculous pick up lines because they say then in hopes that women will of "mate" with them in the next fifteen minutes to "enable the survival of the human race." If women cut did cut men slack on their choice of introduction, then what would happen? Because really, if a man did care about you, would he be one of the ones that says something along the lines of, "You're Smoking' Hot?" The reason they are embarrassed when they get shot down is probably because they are either not used the word no, or hit on loose women who don't know the word no, therefore he is either creepy or he misinterprets you as a loose woman. Men create this unnecessary uproar about how men are treated, but if they would treat women with respect when approaching them then maybe they would receive a more positive response to their lame pick up lines.
