Evolving Identities: Gender and Sexuality in Changing American Culture

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Rhetoric Analysis Essay: Gender and American Identity Introduction Various factors enhance the identification process in human beings. Race is among the significant identifiers that categorize people based on their skin and hair color, among other cultural attributes identifying such individuals as the same racial group. On the other hand, ethnicity serves as another factor that aids in identifying individuals and focuses on linguistics and shared culture while categorizing people. With ethnicity, one can further categorize people sharing the same racial group into smaller groups based on their origin, traditions, religion, and language, among other factors that enhance people's identification with the most similar attributes. However, neither race nor ethnicity considers the gender or sexuality of a person while categorizing individuals in their respective groups. Gender serves as an identifying factor that considers the characteristics of men and women socially constructed with sexuality considering the same characteristics from biological constructions. For this reason, this essay will offer a detailed rhetoric analysis on gender and sexuality as potential identifiers of the American population. Though the population is changing the meaning of gender and sexuality, this analysis aims at providing facts that will offer a better understanding of the meaning and the connection of the two terms. The analysis views the two as potential identifiers of the diversified American population, as argued by Steinmetz in an article titled "Beyond 'He' or 'She': The Changing Meaning of Gender and Sexuality." Steinmetz compiles an article whose title “Beyond ‘He’ or ‘She