Look at This Man Using Burned Haystack Rhetorical Patterns With a Professional Colleague 😡😡😡
A "Rhetoric in Real Life" Post
This Burned Haystack community member’s analysis is so spot on I’m not adding a single word to it—just posting it here to spark discussion.
Here’s her post:
“Non-dating rhetorical example. I’m in a profession-related community and offered to host a local coffee meet-up. One person RSVPd. He then sent me this message.
It gave me a big icky + angry feeling. Thanks to CDA and BHDM, I can better articulate why!
(I’ve never met him. He’s still a stranger on the internet. And yet: I feel so much pressure to “be nice” in professional settings and over look this kind of behavior.)
His first sentence feels way too over familiar.
Second sentence is Directive / Disciplinary. Dude, I don’t work for you!
Third sentence is “Are you my mother?”. I’m not your mom or your executive assistant! Figure it out, and make your own decisions!”
And here’s his message:
Please discuss and share your own experiences . . .
Bingo. Block to burn. And I’m gonna use CDA and rhetoric to stop the 10 years of verbal and sexual harassment from my past 10 employers (and 90% of the men that I’ve dated in my life).. i’m angry and I’m not gonna take it anymore. And what Trump is doing to me and everyone else is going to stop. I think Saturday was the tipping point where people are gonna say I’m sick of your behavior and I’m not gonna take it anymore. Maybe it takes him tearing down part of the White House to build a monument to himself of excess greed, for people to say I’m sick of you, and I’m not gonna take it anymore. You go Jennie. From a 70-year-old hippie witch in Florida.
Should “we” really means should “you” reschedule. To add icing to the rhetorical cake he’s complaining about the location of a meeting that he obviously doesn’t want to attend. I’m so glad I’m retired!