Rhetorical Analysis By Signe Wilkinson

This political cartoon created by Signe Wilkinson was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2019. This cartoon depicts a female and male soccer team opposite each other, with the female team being treated indifferently, by the Soccer Federation in the centre, despite its substantial success. Through this political cartoon, Wilkinson aims to inform U.S rugby enthusiasts about the Soccer Federation’s indifference in U.S women’s soccer compared to U.S men’s soccer despite the U.S women’s soccer success. Wilkinson achieves this through: emphasising the size of the women’s soccer ball, employing statistics within both the U.S men and women’s soccer ball to demonstrate logos, and highlighting the text on the soccer shoes to encourage change to the treatment of U.S women’s soccer.
women’s soccer in contrast to men’s soccer. The technique of size is utilised to show the U.S. women’s team as bigger and taller. The dominant image of the U.S. women’s soccer team being larger indicates that the women's team is larger than the men's and incites the audience to require more attention from the Soccer Federation to the female soccer team. The U.S women’s soccer ball is furthermore, taller in size and indicates it is extensively more successful than the U.S men's soccer team. Through this, the author depicts to the audience by size and height the importance and success of women’s soccer; by emphasising the success of women’s soccer to encourage a change from the Soccer