Question #3 …

What Lorde meant by this is that in order to survive those who are aware that they don’t fit in need to appear as though they meet the standard. They work hard to blend in, and fit into the normative set by others who would then go on to bully, look down at and go against anything that wasn’t the normative. David has phases, usually at critical moments of his life, where he does his best to fit into the normative. One example is during the time of Joey, with whom David initially explored his curiosities, when David went on to hide thiese interests by picking on Joey and messing with many females. He went on to do things he didnt neccessarily agree with, just because he didnt want others, especially his father who was a playboy himself, to view him any differently. He did to Joey that which he feared being done to himself. Even in the time of Giovanni, David clings to the normative by remaining engaged to Hella. Going as far as telling Giovanni that if Hella were there, he wouldnt be with Giovanni. Even then, he went and fucked another female, Sue, just to prove to himself that he could fulfil the role of the heterosexual male.