Rhetorical Analysis Of Man Therapy

Stigmatization can be something as simple as referring to the mentally ill as “crazy”, or something much for harmful, like invalidating a person’s illness by telling them to just “get over it”. The two articles Stigma and Help Seeking for Mental Health Among College Students by Daniel Eisenberg et al., and A Critical, Rhetorical Analysis of Man Therapy by Sam Mocarski and Sim Butler, both address this issue in a unique way that caters to their disciplines. Eisenberg and his co-authors focus on the impact of stigmatization and identifying the problem and its effects. They do this by surveying college students on how stigmatization has affected help-seeking. On the other hand, Mocarski and Butler focus on a solution to the problem and analyze …show more content…
However, the paragraphs are often long, and there is little indentation and spacing between paragraphs, which creates the effect of a “wall of text”. This would hamper the audience’s ability to read the work, but the separation of headings does help counteract this effect. In addition, there is a small biography of each author to develop credibility, but since this section is after over 2 pages of references, it isn’t likely that the average reader would look it as, so that section was most likely for other …show more content…
There are only a few quotes used by Dr.Mahogany, a fictitious therapist who is the host of the online program. The article is bookended by two of his quotes “Welcome...take a knee and get comfortable” and “Because contrary to popular belief, men can’t fix everything themselves.”(“See the New Man Therapy”). Mocarski and Butler are not using these quotes to analyze them, but to manipulate the original meaning of the quotes for their own use. This also ties into their conclusion that Man Therapy had many layers which would have multiple meanings that could either help or