Heteronormativity

The reason all the commercials featuring happy families, show heterosexual relationships. The reason that if you say, "I'm seeing someone" a person might automatically ask who the person is, referring to them as "she" if you're a boy, or "he" if you're 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.

Friend: "Who's your crush?"
Boy: "I don't want to say."

Friend: "Come on, tell me her name!"

Boy: "...it's a he."

Friend: *shocked* "Ohh...sorry"
Boy: "It's not your fault. It's just that we grew up in a world ruled by heteronormativity."

by I_write_books August 7, 2017

heteronormativity

Straight up made up

Heteronormativity is sad for the gays

by HappyBirthdayRaven November 24, 2019

heteronormativity

it’s bullying towards LGBTQ

heteronormativity “sad day for gays” it’s a totally made up word of straight up discrimination.

by Willis did it June 20, 2021

heteronormative

Someone/a group of people that feels the need to make everyone around them heterosexual. Someone who desires to make being straight the norm, therefore oppressing LGBTQ+ people. Such inhumane actions and opinions affect this community in several ways, including normal day to day tasks. A heteronormative society may also decline human rights to these.

John: It's so weird how when I tell people about my relationship with my boyfriend, they ask who's the girl and who's the guy in bed!
Sara: Yes, we live in such a heteronormative society.

Hayley: Me and Jane visited our wedding planner today and we had to leave because every option they had was for straight couples!
Jacob: Yikes, i hate heteronormative wedding companies.

by clink clink bitch March 11, 2017