Heteronormativity vs Heterosexism - What's the difference?
heteronormativity | heterosexism | Synonyms |
The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.
Discrimination against non-heteronormative individuals.
Situations wherein non-heteronormative individuals are ignored or presumed to not exist.
The assumption made when relating to others that everyone is heterosexual.
* 2010 , Stacey Abbott, The Cult TV Book (page 245)
Discrimination against homosexuals, bisexuals and asexuals in favor of heterosexuals.
As nouns the difference between heteronormativity and heterosexism
is that heteronormativity is the view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes while heterosexism is the assumption made when relating to others that everyone is heterosexual.heteronormativity
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(heteronormativities)Coordinate terms
* cisnormativityheterosexism
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(en noun)- One of the driving forces behind slash and femslash is the pervading heterosexism of commercial media – if television will not give us the due proportion of same-sex eroticism we are entitled to expect, then we will make it for ourselves.