Professor Bolaski
English 100
November 18, 2013
1.
The opinion piece that I choose
to write about is called “Why women love big dogs,” by Hayley Krischer. This
article published on the website, salon.com on November 17, 2013. This piece is
interesting to me because I do not love big dogs as a woman. But this piece
explains the reasons that women love big dogs rather than small dogs. This
article is explicitly stated that “pop culture likes to depict ladies with tiny
Yorkies. But there’s something great about a pet who’s a gentle giant.”
2.
In this piece, the author is
not only explaining the reasons of women love big dogs. Some objections of this
piece are that women who live in cities like small dogs due to the size of
houses and plenty of uber-business women own miniature dogs.
“There are also
plenty of uber-business women who own miniature dogs, like Laura Wellington,
CEO of The Giddy Gander. And of course, Oprah Winfrey has been dedicated to
Cocker Spaniels for decade.”
3.
Women who love small dogs might
make such objections because small dogs could be represent as scary dogs rather
than sweets. Small dog caretakers might experience same feelings as women who
take care big dogs.
Concession: “This is not to suggest that women who have small dogs
should be taken less seriously or that they are not powerful.”
4.
Rebuttal: “Some small dogs pack
an intimidating presence (bulldogs, for instance)—so can petite women. Also,
the author preferred big dogs but when she took a dog personality quiz on Dogster,
her result came out as Chihuahua, small dog.
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