"Faggoty Faggots"

"I like guys." As Sedaris shows when recalling the time a kid wrote in his (Sedaris') notebook that he like guys, even the most stupid lies and moronic ways of bullying can crush people. "I like guys" is the  most obvious phrase regarding what a homosexual thinks about himself. It's like if Africans wrote down they're black in case they don't remember it. It could get more stereotypical, like an Asian reminding himself that he likes rice. However, there would be no such mockery as Sedaris shows in "I Like Guys," one of his essays, regarding white heterosexual men. "I'm a married man with a savings account," that's no fun. I don't like being a mainstream protester that fights for whatever is in the newspaper, but Sedaris' essay, by his use of truly great satire, shows how minorities can suffer. I know gay marriage and abortion are trendy for debate ever since it became a fun way to win in politics, but it's still worth writing about.
The chapter "I Like Guys" starts with a teacher complaining about the new racial integration program of the school, reminding everyone in the class that, "The thing to remember...is that more than anything in the world, those colored people wish they were white" (pg. 82). She proceeded to make fun of gays right in front of Sedaris' face, reminding him of the insults the PE teacher used to yell out loud, "Look at you!...You're a group of ladies, a pack of tap-dancing queers"(pg. 83). Unresponsive to the humiliation, Sedaris responded by fantasizing with his French tourist girlfriend he would kiss in the sunset once he went to Greece for the summer. As he mocks his world, the author shows that his innate gayness was simply fixed and people's responses just plainly rejecting. The author uses satire to describe human nature and its silliness.
The author had started getting along with his gay summer camp roommate as their common misunderstanding in the insult "faggot" brought them together. They made fun of their counselor telling them not to be faggots that can't make their beds. Sure... They laughed saying phrases like "sticking faggots" or "faggoty faggots," as the author analyzes people's use of that word. They stopped getting along and started humiliating each other in public, getting nowhere other than becoming more insecure.

Sedaris doesn't want to write an essay about society's discrimination and exclusion of homosexuals nor about the psychological effects it has on one. His book is not critiquing American society and the modern world. Instead, he uses the art of satire to show the small things underneath those things. As I've seen through Naked, satire is a way to observe the way we humans are in perhaps a more advanced way than a straight-foward academic paper.