This week’s Maintenance Phase episode tackles the history of the so-called Obesity Epidemic
This week’s Maintenance Phase episode tackles the history of the so-called Obesity Epidemic, which labeled obesity (based on the BMI categorization) a disease. Hosts Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes attempt to explain how this naming affected social policies and people’s lives and they propose alternative names for understanding weight. Which of the rhetorical functions of naming do you notice in the podcast episode? (Feel free to focus on a specific term, if that helps.) How do Aubrey and Mike use that rhetorical function strategically to change the audience’s mind? Do you see any comparison to the strategies of naming in other social change movements? Use both the Chapter 2 of Rhetoric as Social Intervention reading and the “Obesity Epidemic” episode to explain the rhetorical strategy that you selected.
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