Wollstonecraft
The intent of Wollstonecraft’s letter is to convince the decision makers of the revolutionary movement, as well as men in general, that gender equality is vital when it comes to education. The issue she concentrates on is a lack of consideration for women in a proposal on National Education recently published by Talleyrand. Wollstonecraft considers this a major issue, citing numerous consequences of such decisions for women and for society as a whole. After reading the letter, it’s difficult to pinpoint whether the author’s discourse community is the revolutionary movement or French women in general. For obvious reasons, the recipient is not part of this group.

Young
Young is presenting her Ted talk to challenge the problematic narrative that has been forming about disabled people. She identifies a number of issues, starting with “inspiration porn” – memes and social media posts that feature disabled people and motivational quotes – that is anything but inspirational for a disabled person. Young also talks about how calling a disabled person an inspiration for doing mundane, everyday tasks only serves the non-disabled (a warm smile won’t turn a staircase into a ramp). But the central problem Young identifies is the perception that a person’s disabilities, not society, that make their lives so difficult. We know this is false because if everyone was disabled, there would be two ramps for every staircase. After watching the Ted talk, Young’s discourse community is clearly the entire disabled community, and the audience are both disabled and non-disabled.