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heteronormative

/het-er-uh-nawr-muh-tiv/US // ˌhɛt ər əˈnɔr mə tɪv //

异性恋者,异性恋,异型,异形

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting or relating to behavior or attitudes consistent with traditional male or female gender roles and the assumption of heterosexuality as the norm: our heteronormative culture.

Examples

  • “Many states still bow down to the heteronormative notion that you need a mother and a father,” Martell explains.

  • Members of such families can take on heteronormative, hierarchical roles—such as those of “house parents” in the drag and ballroom scenes, for example—or work as a collective in which responsibilities are shared as equitably as possible.

  • Learn more about the continuing fight for equality within a heteronormative culture in this live discussion.

  • It’s so heteronormative that even though TV series aren’t necessarily meant to be educational, they give youth a glimpse into something that some of them are just not finding anywhere else.

  • It’s not that Recalcati simply ignores these things, it’s that the vision of love he constructs on the page is a total heteronormative eclipse that obscures the light of their existence.

  • In a funny way, Lana is almost too straight to be heteronormative.

  • This is a completely heteronormative presumption that masculinity is a quality only exuded by men who have sex with women.