Blog #4

Part of our role in any functioning society is to whittle each other down in to generalized groups based on our most minute preferences and enjoyments. In David M. Halperin's pleasingly twisted article for the New York Times Opinion Pages, Normal As Folk, the concept of Gay Culture is addressed with a refreshing air of humor and bluntly presented facts. Halperin sets his readers up with several questions that more meaningfully and accurately examine the issues of Gay Culture in America, and frames a space in which his audience can meditate upon its place, or lack thereof, in society. These concepts are asserted with several rhetorical pillars including; diction, exagurated description of gay culture, an appeal to logos, and a distinct contrast between "new gays" and "old gays".