http://harlotofthearts.org/blog/2008/08/07/trashy-rhetorics/ Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:58:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://harlotofthearts.org/blog/2008/08/07/trashy-rhetorics/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Katie Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:29:56 +0000 http://rhetoricalcommons.org/harlot/?p=131#comment-50 I love this strategy of gentle guerrila rhetoric. It reminds me of a more confrontational "movement" from a few years ago where people were going around slapping bumper stickers on SUV's that said "I'm destroying the planet. Ask me how." or something close to that. What's cool about that one, I think, is its move towards dialogue, prompting people to ask about and answer for their consumption -- which is, in many ways, far superior to (if less immediately satisfying than) my own tendency to flip off every Hummer I see... though I suppose that too may prompt dialogue one of these days... I love this strategy of gentle guerrila rhetoric. It reminds me of a more confrontational “movement” from a few years ago where people were going around slapping bumper stickers on SUV’s that said “I’m destroying the planet. Ask me how.” or something close to that. What’s cool about that one, I think, is its move towards dialogue, prompting people to ask about and answer for their consumption — which is, in many ways, far superior to (if less immediately satisfying than) my own tendency to flip off every Hummer I see… though I suppose that too may prompt dialogue one of these days…

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