Blog Post #10

Playing on the same topic that I have been exploring for my remediation and genealogy, I will continue on the track of feminism in modern society. Specifically, I plan to address the issue presented by Betty Friedan decades ago: the problem with no name. This issue was one that went little noticed by many people yet was so common amongst household wives. The problem that women face in the male dominated society is continually afflicting and remains to this day. For instance, women still make $0.70 to the male dollar and are still less represented within the realm of leadership roles. The audience would obviously be women of developed countries; specifically so because it is very difficult to explain the issue faced by developing countries, many other factors come into play and thus cause difficulty in the delivery of the rhetorical discourse. The audience could also include males who possess more liberal ideologies who would be able to help the cause by taking a stand against the social injustice. The exigence is the social injustice itself- or rather the act of indirect, generally targeted sexism. It is an issue that influences a majority of the population of the United States and thus would gain great support. Since the issue has been around for a long time and surfaces every once in a while, more change can come if all the specific issues are addressed. Some constraints would be the feeling of helplessness in some women, which would lead them to be weary of change due to the continuous imbalance of power between males and females. The genre of this assignment would obviously be feminism as a whole, while focusing mostly on social injustices that come as a result of sexism. The best mode to convey this may be an informative poster, cleverly designed to draw the attention of women, strategically located in places that women frequent (because it would make little sense to place such advertisements in locations males frequent). Also perhaps a commercial in the form of a public service announcement would draw the attention of women to alert them to the gravity of the situation.