Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene!

Oh my gosh, too funny! Check this out. Here’s another good example of the power of reverse rhetoric to add to my collection. WordPress won’t let me embed the video apparently, so here’s the link: Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene. The gay Christian part of me just loves this and laughs [...]

reverse rhetoric (”The Writing Center’s Travelling Roadshow” skit)

Here’s the student paper that I referred to in my previous post (three examples of reverse rhetoric).  Back in ‘02 or ‘03, we reversed the genders in it (and made a few other minor changes, if I remember right) and used it in our “Writing Center Travelling Roadshow” skits.  We went into classrooms and did a little presentation [...]

three examples of reverse rhetoric

For some reason, I’m fascinated with how effective reverse rhetoric is — when one group takes something racist or sexist or homophobic that another group says and turns it back on them.
The first one — at least the first one that made me start to think about the phenomenon — was when Petra and I [...]