Accelerated Rhetoric 10-14-02 What’s the real problem? Supremacy by definition is supreme power or authority. In Steinem’s essay she discusses men’s ‘authority’ over women, or the lack there of. She also discusses what she feels contributed to this desire that men have. She discusses her views and supports her statements with actual accounts of this need for supremacy through murders. Steinem’s argument is that we teach our sons growing up …showed first 75 words of 817 total…

…showed last 75 words of 817 total…the deepest and most ignored one” (Steinem 354). Steinem goes on to say “The reasons are buried deep in the culture, so invisible that only by reversing our assumptions can we reveal them” (355). She admits in the previous sentence that she, herself, does not know what the true answer is, she is only giving us her thoughts. So is the question of who is to blame still unanswered? Is someone to blame besides the killers themselves?