Articles used in our project:
Right-leaning: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/grade-school-uses-sex-columnist-unicorn-to-promote-gender-identity Center: https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/693953037/i-can-exist-here-on-gender-identity-some-colleges-are-opening-up Left-leaning: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/03/public-bathrooms-are-gender-identity-battlefields-what-if-we-just-do-it-right The issue that our group covered in our project is that surrounding society’s treatment of transgender and non-binary individuals. Rhetorical Strategies and Discursive approaches: -The right-leaning article uses Ethos and perhaps Pathos as well to establish that the poster it is campaigning against should not be shown to children or taken to be serious. It says that the poster has a quote from Dan Savage, who is a sex columnist and hosts pornography festivals. -The same article uses metaphor and says that “the gender bulletin board has created a firestorm.” We know from cultural assumptions of fire that this indicates that the parties involved are extremely upset and angry. -The left-leaning article establishes logos by introducing the idea of a significant gender-nonconforming population through citing a survey. -In regards to labeling restrooms, the article says “What if we just do it right?” multiple times. Within that statement is one that says that we are currently doing it wrong. The article does not outright say “We as a society are labeling bathrooms incorrectly,” but it gets the idea across through indirect speech. The intended audience for this parody would be left-leaning individuals that do not agree with views expressed on the right, such as how these issues are spoken about in the linked Fox News article. -- Parody: Something akin to an Onion article BRAKING: UNICORN THREATENS WORLDVIEW Parents were shocked when their children’s school had the audacity to entertain the idea that there are people who are not straight and cisgendered. A poster was hung up, depicting gender nonconformity propaganda. It comes straight from the mouth of an anthropomorphic unicorn, using a beloved symbol of children’s innocence to corrupt and confusing them! Even worse, known sex columnist Dan Savage is featured on the egregious equine’s poster. “Of course we can’t have anyone involved in sex teaching our children anything,” said a parent who plans on insisting that the stork is real until their child is twenty-six years old. Sources say that the next crazy bull that the liberals are trying to pull is de-genderization of bathroom signs. How absurd! We all agree that everyone has to know what everyone else’s genitals look like when they walk into a bathroom, our society will collapse into anarchy if we didn’t! First its using “they” and “them” to refer to people, now this! If you ask me, they’re going completely insane. -- My intentions were to respond to the Fox News article and call attention to some hypocrisy that I’ve picked up on from reading the article and from hearing general right-wing rhetoric. I feel like the parody is somewhat effective in calling attention to how I feel by exaggerating and satirizing a lack of self-awareness. To be quite fair, this parody does leave out some facts, such as how Dan Savage apparently hosts pornography festivals and has said rather rude things to conservatives in the past. However, I feel that an example of a somewhat similar lack of self-awareness by not including all the points that might take this parody off of the figurative high ground would add to it, given all of the squabble that can go on from each sides of an issue.
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