1. The "wife beater" clothing style has been increasing in popularity and brings up questions as to the inspiration of it.
2. According to smith the "wife beater," bears a disturbing name of domestic abuse, is often misunderstood by those who wear it, and dilutes the real effects of domestic abuse.
3. Smith includes the dictionary definition of wife-beater to demonstrate to the reader the real meaning of the word by the English language. In the writer's perspective, the name bears a much deeper meaning in that it represents domestic violence. Since it is currently being popularized, it is seeming to her that the meaning is being diluted.
4. Smith brings up that it is common for young people to simply ignore the meaning behind the name of "wife beaters." She quickly attributes this ignorance to the fact that "children of abusers often learn the behavior from their elders." This insinuates that the reason it is becoming popular, is because the wearers just may be the next abusers. Her refutation therefore would create much controversy.
5. A picture would help strengthen the authors claim as it would give the reader a visual on not only what the clothing style looks like, but how it has been recently popularized.
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