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- noun
heterosexism
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Examples
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I was able to balance them with the activism and volunteer work I was doing to educate my communities on issues relating to homophobia, heterosexism, heterocentrism, transphobia, and more.
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You reamed me, and other radical feminists, right up the ass when *WE* called *YOU* on your heterocentrism, your asskissing of heteronormative values 3 Husbands; 11 Children.
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Especially not since it could derail what I think is a more interesting conversation about possible heterocentrism in how many feminists discuss rape.
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Whilst I absolutely agree that power imbalances shade the meanings of actions I do also feel that it is worth preserving the distinction between explicitly racist or abusive or homophobic acts and acts whose meanings are altered due to their occurence within the context of racism or patriarchy or heterocentrism.
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Leaving aside the evident cis - and heterocentrism, and Mills 'evident disbelief that there are a lot of women who are (or will be) happily childless and/or unpartnered in their 40s and beyond, and the reeking classism and entitlement that makes the piece nearly unreadable, I just have to ask on what planet, exactly, did she and her friends grow up where
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Leaving aside the evident cis - and heterocentrism, and Mills 'evident disbelief that there are a lot of women who are (or will be) happily childless and/or unpartnered in their 40s and beyond, and the reeking classism and entitlement that makes the piece nearly unreadable, I just have to ask on what planet, exactly, did she and her friends grow up where
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Leaving aside the evident cis - and heterocentrism, and Mills 'evident disbelief that there are a lot of women who are (or will be) happily childless in their 40s and beyond, and the reeking classism and entitlement that makes the piece nearly unreadable, I just have to ask on what planet, exactly, did she and her friends grow up where
Shakesville Melissa McEwan 2010
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Leaving aside the evident cis - and heterocentrism, and Mills 'evident disbelief that there are a lot of women who are (or will be) happily childless and/or unpartnered in their 40s and beyond, and the reeking classism and entitlement that makes the piece nearly unreadable, I just have to ask on what planet, exactly, did she and her friends grow up where
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Leaving aside the evident cis - and heterocentrism, and Mills 'evident disbelief that there are a lot of women who are (or will be) happily childless in their 40s and beyond, and the reeking classism and entitlement that makes the piece nearly unreadable, I just have to ask on what planet, exactly, did she and her friends grow up where
Shakesville Melissa McEwan 2010
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Leaving aside the evident cis - and heterocentrism, and Mills 'evident disbelief that there are a lot of women who are (or will be) happily childless and/or unpartnered in their 40s and beyond, and the reeking classism and entitlement that makes the piece nearly unreadable, I just have to ask on what planet, exactly, did she and her friends grow up where
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