I actually did a visual argument. It is a bit lame, but I actually was able to do it on the computer. Hopefully it will now attach for you all to see. I will write something more later over the readings. I also want to say that I did this with absolutely no help whatsoever, an accomplishment in itself with my technological luck. By the way, that is a skirt on the "walk" sign. Did I mention I am no artist.
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I'm so proud of you!
And I really like your argument, which I take to be a critique of representational iconography. The person with a skirt is supposed to be a woman or, more specifically, the person wearing pants is supposed to be a man. However, this walk sign, a symbol of action, clearly shows a pants-wearer (man) in action, thus excluding women from action.
Either that or you're saying that men should wear skirts.
I liked this argument as well, for reasons Bri so eloquently stated above, and also because it simply made me laugh. I had to search the photo for several minutes until I realized that the walking person (to be PC) had donned a skirt. Humor, as we discussed early in 8010, is a very effective rhetorical tool. And while humor can be difficult to write, it may be easier to incorporate (for me, anyway) humor into visual argument.
I love that one little detail of a fairly ordinary picture functions as a thesis. I think it's also indicative of how representational iconography pervades our culture in a variety of ways, however small.
And, if you really are saying men should wear skirts, I propose that the men of 8010 buck up and try it out in class this week.
I think she should also be wearing a top hat and walking a lemur on a long black chain.
I wore a kilt to school several times in high school, Liz, so don't tempt me.
I wore a skirt in public on dozens of occasions with the Stanford Band, so I'm all for it too. One of the entrance doors to the band building was once painted with a similar dress-wearing figure, except it was the generic "man" that appears on bathroom doors. So, Court?
You know, my brother got sent home in high school for wearing a dress to school. Funny story, really.
I find all this talk of wearing a skirt fascinating. It reminds me of Klinger on MASH. For the record, my fiance Clay wore a skirt and a straw hat to attract customers to our yard sale. It wasn't that much help though, unfortunately. We can't say he didn't try.
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