heterosexualism
Collocations
3ADJ.
against
VERB + HETEROSEXUALISM
challenge, fighting
HETEROSEXUALISM + NOUN
belief
Definitions
noun
Discrimination against non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
What I fear is the normalization of homosexual behavior, which otherwise stands as a challenge to heterosexualism—the belief that all sexual behavior should be procreative or at least not preclude the possibility of babymaking.
The organization is no longer a coalition against racism. It's now a coalition against racism, sexism, classism, militarism and heterosexualism.
The state or existence of heterosexuality, including the traditional gender roles that accompany it.
The moral fabric of American family life centered on the suburban "split level family" of the suburbs, upholding the values and beliefs of heterosexualism, as pictured in the novels of Edmund White and other recent gay writers.
From the position of possibility created by separating from heterosexualism, Hoagland incites a "moral revolution" that can enable lesbian agency and might also lead to the end of heterosexualism, gender domination, and the (moral) existence of women and men.
Synonym of heterosexuality.
I have talked this observation over with Rank, Freud, Ferenczi and other psychoanalysts, and it seems to be generally agreed that secret, isolated autoerotism does not convert easily to heterosexualism and is far more difficult to cure by psychoanalysis than homosexual masturbation that has not continued too long.
My viewpoint is one that bears directly against the view of gays and bisexual people that homosexuality is entirely normal, an equivalent substitute for heterosexualism and - as some argue - the real McCoy.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of
- heterosexuality
- straightness
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3What I fear is the normalization of homosexual behavior, which otherwise stands as a challenge to heterosexualism—the belief that all sexual behavior should be procreative or at least not preclude the
WiktionaryThe organization is no longer a coalition against racism. It's now a coalition against racism, sexism, classism, militarism and heterosexualism.
WiktionaryHe is able to see his marginalization as a positive act of self-determination, while at the same time wanting nothing to do with leftíst gay politics. He is apart and fighting against heterosexualism,
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