[The Lizard of Oz]

(02-02-2014 01:44 PM)Slim Shady Wrote:  

Just read the letter. I was almost laughing from the first line. This reads completely like a trumped up cliche letter. It uses every basic rhetorical device in the book, and that too in a heavy handed hacky way.

First, starting and ending it in that stupid way. The whole "I can't see toy trains bit". Many other uses of pathos and ethos. The classic, watching my tormentor get awards year after year bit.

"But sexual abuse claims against the powerful stall more easily. There were experts willing to attack my credibility." - This should happen in any and every case. Sadly it doesn't.

Her tone in the first few paragraphs is that of an ignorant child, who feels strange about all her instances of "abuse" but isn't too worked up about them. Once she's come out with this to her mother she says "I also didn’t know the firestorm it would trigger." again playing confused. But then she is suddenly knowledgeable.

"That he got away with what he did to me haunted me as I grew up. I was stricken with guilt that I had allowed him to be near other little girls."

Doesn't this bother you? She goes form a girl who didn't know what was happening to her exactly, and how serious it was, to being HAUNTED by it. That only happens when you are constantly told and reinforced in your head [most likely by her crazy mother] that you are the victim. Sounds a lot like modern feminism and "rape victims" today, who are convinced by their girlfriends that last night's drunk sex was rape, cause "you deserve better than that loser"

Fin

GREAT POST. Spot-on analysis and +1 from me.