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mcity ([personal profile] mcity) wrote2008-08-29 12:42 pm
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HAHAHA

But new, more egregious terminologies have now been invented that will never be found infiltrating non-academic fora.

Writing on Cambridge Common, a Harvard-related blog whose contributors hail from the far left, Katherine E.S. Loncke ’08 calls a particular line of reasoning “disturbingly vapid [and] heteronormative.”
This article was written just three years ago. I see bloggers throwing around that term all the time.

In all seriousness, most definitions of the term I can find define it as thinking presuming a hetrosexual gender binary is normal. Given that meaning, why do I keep seeing it being used to refer to something akin to male chauvinism, or a hetronormative patriarchy*? Isn't women ogling men just as heteronormative? And what is up with Urban Dict's definition?

A pervasive and institutionalized ideological system that naturalizes heterosexuality as universal; it must continually reproduce itself to maintain hegemony over other non-normative sexualities and ways of identity construction.

marriage, traditional family values, the Christian Coalition, suburbia, 'the American Dream'
And why is any heteronormative person automatically thought to be a white-bread, Christian conservative, and therefore wrong? Isn't that, I dunno, bigotry?

*It disturbs me at how good I am at stringing these concepts together.

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