In Gayle Rosenwald Smith's The Wife-Beater many fallacies can been seen throughout.  One example is Begging the Question when Smith says "The name is the issue." She is trying to pin the many cases of abuse on the fact that people attribute this name degrading statement to a piece of clothing. Claiming that people think it's okay to call it a "wife-beater" and in turn they look at domestic abuse as something overlook just like the name of this piece of clothing.  This helps her argument because she ties the two issues together making people think they are related, that the name is what is causing this abuse and that people don't think twice about the name. Another example is is Hasty Generalization when Smith states "Maybe youth today would rather ignore the overtones of the term wife-beater." she uses this generalization to attack youth in hopes that they will stop using this term.  The generalization will spark some attention by youth readers, which was her purpose in hopes to change their vocabulary and change their behavior.  Lastly Smith uses Begging the Question again when she says "...children of abusers often learn the behavior from their elders." She uses this in hopes that her audience will believe that correlation proves causation. She is stating that if a child has an abusive parent that they too will become abusive. Smith's use of fallacies throughout her story help to support her main purpose and persuade people to change the context and meaning of what a "wife-beater" is.