Exigency – Yoshimo observed people who weren’t in the ‘mainstream being discriminated against.


Purpose – to prove that the mainstream is a constantly changing thing that at one point has everyone discriminated against.

Audience – people who are ‘currently’ in the ‘mainstream’ who turn a blind eye to what is going on because they don’t have to deal with it at the moment. :

Logic – shows how people not in the current mainstream are forced to try and be more like people in the current mainstream to do simple things like hold down a job.

Credibility – Personal testimony about being a gay professor. Stories about the minority groups that were forced to conform. The pregnant woman, the Jewish man who wore the yarmulke, and the African American woman who wore corn rows, for example.

Emotion – making the connection between the audience and the stories of people discriminated against, women could sympathize with the pregnant woman, Jewish people with the man who wore the yarmulke, and so on.

Imagery – The idea of a changing mainstream.

Diction – the language of the piece is directed at a more educated audience, aka those in the mainstream.

Syntax – More eloquently written sentences for a more educated audience