8. The six ways we talk about a teenage girl’s age

    Soraya Chemaly, the author of the article by Salon talks about a very polemic subject, how girls are viewed when involved in crime. The author starts mentioning a case of rape as an atention getter and uses 2 more examples alike on the first paragraph. Chemaly talks about the importance of knowing how to talk to teenagers that are involved in such complicated matters. She says that when communicating to them, one must take into consideration the six ages a teenage girl has. These are: her chronological age, how old her body look, her emotional age, commercially profitable age, media age, and the age at which a girl is portrayed as “fair game” for older men.
    Chemaly uses a lot of allusion throughout her article. She refers to movies, such as "Two Mothers" and "American Beauty", also she talks about Tom Cruise, Danzel Washington and other actors. She also the rhetorical device anacoluthon to finish her article. She writes, "Not one of these many ways of measuring an adolescent girl’s age excuses predatory rapists — and yet time and time again, they’re used to do just that.", starting by stating something and then changing her statement with "-- yet (...)". The main thing that the author wanted to accomplish with this article was to explain each different "age" that teenage girls that have been through rape. She makes it clear that their different types of ages affect a lot on the kind of male (sometimes even female) attention they receive. Chemaly uses this article to warn teenage girls to act their age and try to dress modest to avoid situations as the ones she states in her article.

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/04/the_six_ways_we_talk_about_a_teenage_girls_age/