that wives and mothers are for what they do is more than what their counterparts do; women are being treated unequal to men. Judy Syfers supports her claim by using the three major modes of persuasion: ethos, pathos, and logos. The author’s purpose is to get women to take action and to get men to feel sympathy and treat women equally. The author writes to married men, who do not appreciate their wives and married women, who need to realize what is happening to them. However, she also writes to men and women who are not married in order to prevent men and women from living like a stereotypical couple.