#heteronormativity

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fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

Everyone Says There's a "Right" Way for Women to Get Engaged. I Found Out What Happens When You Ignore It.

I really feel like the cultural norm around proposals is fundamentally silly and outdated. I wish more people would consider that women can propose too! It doesn't have to come from the male partner in heterosexual relationships. I asked my now-husband to marry me, and it was the best choice I've ever made. I think it's really interesting that this wasn't even mentioned in your advice-which goes to show how embedded this heteronormative idea about who gets to propose really is.
Relationships
Philosophy
fromApaonline
4 months ago

A Duty to Resist Love Island: An Inquiry

Love Island enforces heteronormative coupling and gendered relationship roles, privileging male dominance while portraying women as emotional within romantic interactions.
LGBT
fromThe Nation
4 months ago

James Baldwin's Radical Politics of Love

Heteronormativity and archival silences complicate efforts to determine the sexual identities of historical Black writers like Langston Hughes and James Baldwin.
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