• 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.


    Heteronormativity meaning & definition 1 of Heteronormativity.


  • The reason all the [commercials] featuring happy families, show heterosexual relationships. The reason that if you say, Im [seeing someone] a person might automatically ask who the person is, referring to them as she if youre a boy, or he if youre a girl. It is the belief that only male/female relationships are normal and that everyone falls into two distinct categories: male and female. It is the [assumption] that a girl will grow up and marry a man, and that a boy will grow up and marry a woman.

    Heteronormativity meaning & definition 2 of Heteronormativity.


  • [Straight up] [made up]

    Heteronormativity meaning & definition 3 of Heteronormativity.

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