Franki Bruni is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. Franki Bruni's writing style is astonishing. In his columns, he reflects on diverse topics: American politics, higher education, violence in football, gay rights and his own life as a gay man in a close-knit family. Bruni writes distinctive words that's very appeasing to readers. His words persuades others to believe everything that he's trying to argue. Bruni has great diction. in his article, " Sex, Lies, and Houston", He expresses how he would be previewed as "I USED to be a child molester. Not in actuality. In the popular imagination. In public debate." He uses the words such as: child molester to explain how the world would imagine him, a boy who is a child molester for liking the same sex. He explains how "Their words were so common and feebly challenged in the 1960s and 1970s, when I grew up, that even in the 1980s, when I was in my 20s, I sometimes kept an extra few feet between me and boys. I refrained from the typical sort of ebullience and friendliness that an adult summons when introduced to an acquaintance’s kid for the first time." He exclaims how growing up, he had to walk at a distance from men or children because people would think that he was a molester.