#rhetoricalsituation

Every #englishcomp should be using last night´s @miamisuperbowl #superbowlmiami show with @jlo and @shakira. Lots of rich use of devices and the easiest #rhetoricalsituation to set up. My question to the class was this: So many people were on social media talking about the dancing with skimpy outfits. But, what was really going on? We will find out while learning #rhetorical essay writing. #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #writingteachers (at Aurora, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8HlC4pB2F9/?igshid=8qv5n1cy4svi

I was browsing /r/GirlGamers between sets of a SmUsh tournament on Twitch. I saw this discussion post and decided to read it. The purpose of this post is to start a discussion on how to make gaming friends as an adult. The user's exigence comes from her need to make friends so that she can play games with them. She appeals to logos by explaining the steps she has already taken to make friends. She appeals to ethos by establishing that she is one of many older gamers struggling to find friends. She appeals to pathos by expressing her feelings of frustration on making friends as an adult. /r/GirlGamers is a good audience for her post since girl gamers often run into the problem of making friends locally. I actively engaged with this post by replying with my own experience with making friends locally.

I saw this discussion post while browsing /r/GirlGamers. The purpose of this post is for OP to get a better understanding of skill in FPS games. Her exigence comes from her desire to get better at FPS games. She appeals to ethos by establishing that she is a single player gamer that wants to play FPS games. She appeals to pathos by expessing her frustration at sucking at FPS games. She appeals to logos by explaining what methods she has tried to get better. Her audience at /r/GirlGamers is a good one for her discussion since many of us gals have trouble transitioning into FPS games from other genres. FPS games are now more marketed towards women than before, so I am not surprised to see these posts. I love FPS games, so I decided to give my advice on starting FPS games. I actively engaged in this post by leaving a comment and browsing for other tips.

A gamer gal posted this vent/discussion on /r/girlgamers. The post title caught my eye, so I clicked on it. The purpose of this post is to address negative stereotypes about women in gaming through a discussion about gaming experiences. The user’s exigence comes from her need to vent about sexist comments she has been seeing on the internet. She appeals to ethos by establishing that she has been playing video games online for 2 years. She appeals to pathos by expressing her frustrations. She appeals to logos by arguing that women should not be told to play healer because they are women. Posting this discussion to /r/girlgamers was a good idea since her audience on this subreddit is full of girl gamers that can relate to this post. After enjoying the title of this post, I read over the text and joined in on the discussion in the comments. 

While scrolling through /r/girlgamers, I found this discussion post. The purpose of this post is for the user to decide whether she should use a mic in Overwatch or not. Her exigence for posting is that she wants to make gaming friends. She appeals to ethos by establishing that she loves playing Overwatch. She appeals to pathos by revealing that she is sensitive to toxicity. She appeals to logos by arguing her reasoning for being scared of using her mic in game. I actively engaged with this post by adding my own comment on how she could ease into using her mic in game. The /r/girlgamers subreddit is a good spot for her discussion since girl gamers deal with harassment from using mics in game, but /r/ggoverwatch might have been a better subreddit for her to get more replies. (/r/ggoverwatch is /r/girlgamers’ subreddit dedicated to Overwatch).

While scrolling through my reddit feed, I saw this post on /r/OverwatchUniversity. I read it because I am a Mei main and love to hear people suffer because of Mei. The purpose of this discussion post is to ask other competitive players how to better handle going against Mei. The user's exigence for his post comes from his desire to climb to a higher rank by winning games. The user appeals to pathos in his post by expressing his frustration with losing to Mei players and therefore gains sympathy from a community that calls Mei the devil. He appeals to logos by arguing with supportive evidence how hard Mei is to kill. He appeals to ethos by stating that he is a low diamond player looking for help. The subreddit helps players with tips on how to climb higher in competitive Overwatch, so he found the right place to start this discussion. I actively engaged with this post by reading through the comments and replying to the thread with my own insights on how to better defeat a Mei player.

I saw this text post on /r/GirlGamers while I waited for my queue in League of Legends. The purpose of this post is to present evidence of how League of Legends fails women in their art design of characters. I have always been aware of this fact but was happy that League of Legends at least had women as playable characters, but League of Legends has had plenty of time to progress in this regard since I downloaded the game in 2011 and should not be blundering their character designs in 2019. The user’s exigence for this post is her need to express her frustration at League of Legends as a women player and as a Morgana main, which really spoke to me. She appeals to logos strongly by providing images as evidence in her logical argument that the character designs are problematic. She appeals to pathos by expressing her love for the game and her resulting disappointment when the art team fails her, which gains her sympathy from her audience. She appeals to ethos by telling her audience that she mains one of the characters that is undergoing one of the art reworks and by establishing herself as a woman gamer in League of Legends with knowledge of all the splasharts for League of Legends. She posted this text post to /r/GirlGamers because it is a safe place to express these kinds of frustrations and to start discussions about women character designs. However, she did try to post this text to /r/LeagueofLegends first and was met with downvotes. Talking about gaming issues related to women in these main subreddits for games often results in this dismissal or in outright hate. I read this well-written post, commented on the news to me that the art was changing in ways I didn’t expect (and now dread), and saved it for future reference when people ask why I complain about women character design in games.