Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Rhetorical Situation Graffiti Assignment

Whitehall graffiti: on a fraternity flier
If this is hard to see, there is a big "no" circled, and "I'll always be a sister", then the inappropriate comment is easy to see. Due to this graffiti the writer would potentially be a gdi (or someone who is not a greek) who wrote no. This could be stated because they don't want to join the fraternity. Obviously it is a woman, since this is the woman's restroom. Then the "I'll always be a sister" is probably written by a sorority girl, who loves her chapter. Then another woman would have been the one to write the inappropriate comment who thinks greek life is dumb.
The readers of this graffiti would be anyone who used the restroom and saw this. Though this would potentially not change the opinion of those who were interested in the fraternity, it is humorous.
The message of these different graffiti is that they do not want to join the fraternity, and they think it is dumb. Though this is an obvious message, the fact that they felt the need to write about it is funny.
The context of the message is that they are not happy with greek life or this new fraternity. This is really obvious though, being a greek however I find this offensive. Being a member of the greek community, every organization is important. Even the non-social fraternities deserve respect as well. While this is very minimally graffiti, it still is very inappropriate yet seemingly funny to others, graffiti.

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