"Why I can't Stop Reading Mormon Housewife Blogs"
by Emily Matchar
1. I thought one way Matchar conveyed pathos in her article was by the language she used. It was very fluffy - like a mom blog would be - but also sarcastic as she addressed how against-her-nature the topics were. Things like "bangs like Zooey Deschanel" and "They drink a suspicious amount of hot chocolate." She was able to connect with two audiences - both those who find these things odd and funny, and those who find them familiar. . . and still funny.
2. I felt she was also able to connect with her audience by talking about the different views of the role of a mother. She talked about the perfect-housewife view of the 50s, the pain-in-the-butt mothers of today, and how the Mormon mothers compare to these. She was about to connect with the audience by turning us towards one life style or the other.
3. Honestly, I found this article to be intriguing, because she shifted her view around. She said that these Mormon blogs could be a bunch of smock-sceen nonsense, but she followed it up by saying that was not completely a bad thing. She was about to address difference ideas regarding her lifestyle, but end nicely by taking the positive side for the blogs.
I liked your first point about how she appealed to both audiences. I didn't think about that. She was able to connect with the opposites of the female spectrum: Mormon married wives vs atheist feminists.
ReplyDeleteI really liked your second point, she did a great job of appealing to all audiences when it would've been easy for her to just appeal to mormon housewives and mothers who are struggling to find a work-life balance
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