Word: heteronormativeã
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...Microsoft Word Paper Clip, “heteronormative?? isn’t a word? Looks like we just found one wiry, wound-up bigot...
...laws, but were afraid to admit,” the play presents a series of vignettes on the ever-elusive subject of love. The scenes follow the same general progression as most relationships, from jittery first-dates to chance meetings at wakes. Although the musical is unabashedly heteronormative??mostly likely a product of its pre-21st century datedness than its politics—it does accurately caricature the often hilarious situations involved in searching for, sustaining, or losing love. Anyone who’s ever had so much as an unrequited crush can enjoy...
...Heteronormative?? is a peculiar (some would say vapid) invention that does not yet pack the rhetorical punch “homophobia” does, largely because the idea that underlies it is so absurd on the face of things...
This is the face of “heteropresumption”—the companion noun of “heteronormative??—which is the gaffe of assuming the person you’re talking to is, like the vast majority are, a heterosexual...
Mansfield stood his ground, properly calling those examples marginal and ultimately irrelevant to his core argument. But many have not been so steadfast with reality. When the proposition of changing Tuft’s “heteronormative?? housing confronted the university’s president, he found it hard to respond in the logical way—that heteropresumption is the way of a world where the huge majority are straight—and instead invented a nonsensical excuse underpinned by a worry that sexually transmitted diseases would increase if the sexes were mixed...