heteronormativity

• “Sev - but surely heteronormativity = basic human nature for the vast majority of hetero normal people hence the very name heteronormativity?”

  Credit Crunch Britain : Cheques and Balances

• “Queer theorists have sought to demonstrate that a wide range of social institutions display heteronormativity, that is, the assumption of heterosexuality and of the gender difference that defines it, as a norm.”

  Marriage and Domestic Partnership

• “Rather, it represents just one several ways in which the Govt sought to "de-sexualize" the Civil Partnership Act, and by extension de-sexualize same-sex relationships, in a way which, in my view, reflects a prevailing heteronormativity that is to say, it reflects, and also reinforces, the social and political forces that force us to conform to heterosexual norms.”

  Useless Fact of the Day: No 94

• “Now any opposition to homosexual sex behavior is called heteronormativity, homophobia and transphobia.”

  Planet Atheism

• “(The child_lit railings about whether it was a corrective or a confirmation of the Potter series '"heteronormativity" left me untouched; the only flag you need to fly is your own).”

  Three Little Words

• “Otherwise, your take on "heteronormativity" and Swarthmore's attack thereon is spot on.”

  Swarthmore, conquering heteronormativity with pornographic chalkings.

• “I was typing quickly–my son was calling; Curious-George-related homework–and therefore distractedly; I guess I jumped to the end of what I was thinking, which was that what you’re calling heteronormativity, in the case of talking about rape, ends up protecting men’s interests I know that you are talking about a broader range of interests when you talk about heteronormativity, but I was focusing on men.”

  Link Farm and Open Thread #11

• “I'm e-mailing a guy right now I really want to meet who used the word "heteronormativity" in his profile ... aside from that, which almost never happens, more what I look for is ... you know the Bechdel Test for films?”

  Center for American Progress Action Fund

• “Mary, by "heteronormativity", I don't * just* mean the idea that heterosexuality is normative.”

  Modestly Yours

• “I'm half-inclined to think that this article is a parody of the theory of "heteronormativity" and claims of "discrimination", especially given that they earlier point out that "just because norms establish a majority, does not necessarily entail the persecution of minorities".]”

  Balderdash

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