#rethorics

[the-forsakenlegionnaire]

Actually.

can you even preen an echid-

"No."

Lien-da has spoken. Don't touch her hair.

THE QUILLS AREN'T OFF LIMITS HOWEVER!

[multimediacrossover]

#cítricademedios Discurso Naranja (Orange Speech)

[maartenscherpenisse]

JOHN HEJDUK: Builder of Worlds [excerpt]

[comunisfera]

Reputación: contexto y fundamentos para una auditoria de comunicación

Horizonte difuminado del habla, voces más allá de la escritura

Diálogo y retóricas de comunidades: el libro de estilo de los míos

Iconología, interpretación de los símbolos comunitarios

La reputación como escucha, conocimiento de grupos de interés y evaluación de símbolos (presentación con enlaces a textos escogidos)

[sodomyordeath]

Let's talk about experiance or, better, anecdotal evidence.

When we end up in a discussion we want to use scientific evidence but it's very unlikely that we have exactky what we need at hand. I agree that nowadays it's often a option to pull the right date up on your smartphone and make your point.

Most people don't do that. (See what I did there? I just puted a claim out as a fact. Gotta love Rhetorics.)

What we, as humans, are very good at is putting our own experiances out there to make our point.  I call this "personal truth" vs. "universal truth".

Someone says that person xy isn't nice. I know person xy and that person was always nice to me so my personal truth is xy is nice. Turned out xy isn't nice to pretty much anyone else so data based xy isn't nice and that's the universal truth.

I never meet someone who's a 1 or a 6 on the Kinsey scale so monosexuals don't exist, personal truth. Data indicates there are a lot of 1s and 6s out there,universal truth (also I still doubt it :p)

Lesson learned: Don't you only check your privilege also check your evidence.

[itsawomansworld2-blog]

Don’t Call Girls Bossy. Or Grown Women Aggressive. Seriously, don’t do it. And while you’re at it, don’t call them pushy, angry, brusque, ballbusters, bitchy, careerist, cold, calculating — you get the point. Also: shrill and strident, both of which imply high-pitched and screechy women a la your mother, finger pointed, scolding you to clean your room. Bossy is the subject of the new Sandberg campaign, but it’s something linguists have written about for decades. The reality is that these words are rooted in stereotype, and they are only applied to women. […] If you wouldn’t call a dude these words, don’t say ‘em of a lady.

- from "11 Ways to Avoid Sounding Like a Sexist Jerk Even if You're a Woman" (Times)

[feacarlsson-blog]

pouring those words out, why does it feel so fucking hard?

[itsawomansworld2-blog]

Even though it is originally about a small indie-game, the arguments made about sexism being sexism regardless of whether people are angry about it or not is applicable to a variety of debates.

In short: feelings does not affect sexism, sexism does.