Make a list of pet peeves. Write about one of them, or make it a big ol’ throwdown and write about as many as you’d like. Then, make the piece of writing useful and digestible to people who actually do those things you’re describing. (Looking at you, folks who breathe loudly while eating and/or misuse the term “type A personality” thinking it’s somehow flattering to describe oneself as that...? Anyway.)
How the hell do you do make the writing accessible and useful and digestible and respectful to the person you’re trying to persuade to see another way, you ask? First, you’re going to have to write with the assumption that the people doing these super annoying things are both moral and intelligent, at least in their own eyes. Secondly, you’re going to have to make the writing more useful to the reader and less of a grand pontification (i.e., about the thing, but not about you). Then, and this part might be the hardest, you’re going to have to imagine the way in which said folks doing said annoying things generally might view the world, and then frame your own persuasive argument to fit inside their frame.
Well, Guth, that’s a long freaking walk for a short drink of water, you might be thinking, and you’re not wrong. But, the above are also all ingredients for making persuasive progress with opposing points of view. Meaning, we’re keeping the stakes low here by trying to get through to someone who is simply doing something that low-key annoys you. But, these same tactics also work for when the stakes are far, far higher, and when the need to persuade others is more urgent.