Heteronormativity

What is Heteronormativity?


1.

A term that can be used to describe institutions, policies and beliefs that reinforce the rigid categories of male and female. These categories, supposedly, determine our sex, sexuality, sexual desire, gender identity, and gender roles.

The proposed law to make sure homosexuals never have marriage rights is just another step down the slippery heteronormativity slope.

See sex, homosexual, heterosexual, polyamorous, deviant, bisexual, transgendered, butch, dyke, sadist, masochist, queer, asexual, celibate

1.

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'

2.

See previous definition. Additionally: When Political Correctness goes so far as to attack the natural order of male-female relations.

Traditional marriages are politically incorrect because they're grossly heteronormative.

Wow, a husband and wife!? That's SO hetero.


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