Generality: Weiner assumes that her audience has already heard some stereotypes of retirement homes, and that they view those stereotypes in a comedic way. She also assumes that, because here own Grandma is having this bad experience at the retirement home, that there are other elderly people who can relate, and that it is a serious issue.
Analogy: The author draws similarities between the attitudes of these women, and the attitudes of the "mean girls" in high school. The study she shared from Karl Pillemer, did not explicitly say, but showed that there are some similarities between the social living of those in retirement homes and those in prisons.
Sign: If Weiner's grandmother is suffering socially in her retirement home, then other seniors are experiencing the same discomfort.
Causality: Because of the way she is being treated, her grandmother can't call her retirement home a "home".
Authority: Weiner has experience, because she has witnessed what her own grandmother goes through. She references another source of authority when she shares the statistics of "conflicts and violence" in retirement homes found from a study done at Cornell University.
Principle: People should be kind to one another, no matter what their age. It should be handled seriously when seniors are taken advantage of or bullied, because they are just like the rest of us.
loved this! I'm wearing a t-shirt that refrences mean girls as we speak haha
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