Sedaris identifies himself as a homosexual male with a lisp. This means that he doesn’t have much power in America. Despite the fact that Sedaris is a male, which is the dominant gender in America, he holds an insufficient amount of power due to his sexual orientation and his “defective” mental state. In my opinion, this power is the power of perception, or how other people will perceive you: if you are dangerous or safe, smart or ignorant, etc. Anyways, this deficiency is because being heterosexual, as opposed to being homosexual, is the most common sexual orientation in America. Thus, heterosexuals would be considered to be oddities and disparate in the eyes of Americans. Furthermore, most Americans perceive themselves as normal because they