blog post 8

1) What social exigence will you be fighting against? Or what movement will you be situating yourself within? NOTE: If you want to start a movement or something like it, think locally: try to fix something on FSU's campus or something within Tallahassee.
2) Within the artifact you make, what is/are your rhetorical goal(s)? What persuasive function(s) are you trying to achieve? Why do you think this rhetorical goal is the most important as opposed to any of the others?
3) What Languaging Strategies and Tactics might you rely on? How will they complement the persuasive function you are trying to accomplish?

I think the exigence that I want to fight is the rape culture/anti-feminist culture in the USA today. Its something that affects me personally based on my gender. I think I would like to make an awareness-raising video, something that could possibly be put on youtube since this day and age rely so heavily on computers and technology. The rhetorical goals would be to raise awareness and convince the social audience that 1) rape culture exists, 2) convince people that its a real problem that people have to deal with and 3) that it has to stop. The first goal will probably be the most difficult since a lot of people would like to believe that rape culture and anti-feminist culture exist. However, the most important goal is to persuade people to change their thinking in order for rape culture to cease existing. I would probably use a lot of polarization and storytelling tactics in the video, to pull on ethos and pathos for persuasion. Storytelling especially would compliment my goals because it could pull at the audiences' heartstrings with emotional personal accounts. It would be more effective to get people to change the way they think if they had a name or a face that would motivate them.