For the piece of art, I decided to choose Andrian Piper’s “Decide Who You Are, Anita Hill.” From that picture, I saw a little black girl sitting on the ground looking ahead, looking like she was thinking about something. The red letters may represent what she is thinking about. The rhetorical properties of this work represent its social significance; it reflects the author’s support and encouragement for the little girl and the way society’s words towards the victim can influence their thoughts and behavior. The red words bring a strong emotion, which means that those words represent what is happening to her now. The picture says, “I hate to do this,” “you are overreacting,” “you are oversensitive.” It makes me feel that she feels dislike for some things, but then someone accuses her of having a view on things. After searching, I found out that this girl had been sexually harassed and was a victim. This piece is related to the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, and it reflects the attitudes of society towards victims at the time, but the point of this piece is to encourage people who have been hurt to have more courage to speak up. Society should give victims some tolerance and help them to get out of their phobia and have some positive impact. My conclusion from this article is that the voice of society should not put more pressure on victims and that they deserve to be encouraged rather than afraid to tell their stories.
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I love the way you analysis this piece of art. And you also make the connection between the art and its background and story. Nowadays, the society always makes new on those victims and also judge them a lot. These will affect victims to express themselves or tell others about the story a lot. The society is not helping them at all, it made the situation even worse.
You had a great analysis of the piece of art. I agree that today there is a lot of societal pressure from your abusers and community not to speak up and stay silent. This doesn’t seem right. I feel that speaking up might give courage to others going through the same situation.
I agree with what you said, and you made a very important analysis. It’s true that quite a few sensitive things happen in society and that a cold society doesn’t give much tolerance. I also think that victims should be given more tolerance to get rid of their fears because by doing so they don’t have to live in a stressful atmosphere every day and can experience the joy and meaning of life.