What does heteronormalize mean?
Heteronormalize means (transitive) To alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative..
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/ˌhɛtəɹəʊˈnɔːməlaɪz/ · verb
(transitive) To alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative..
Kearney reveals not only how riot grrrls became exoticized as young sexy “punkettes,” commodifying their surface appearances, but also how they are repeatedly heteronormalized as straight girls.
In other words, he ontologizes the symbolic and heteronormalizes us.
As dismayed as I am with Jenks’s editing, it is not, of course, fair to say that he completely heteronormalized Hemingway’s text[.]
That modernist efforts to heteronormalize Iranian society have not focused on the production of the homosexual as a type has had significant repercussions on yet another level.
Heterosocial European cultural practices, in other words, heteronormalized Iranian men’s sensibilities.
Use heteronormalize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Heteronormalize means (transitive) To alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative..
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Kearney reveals not only how riot grrrls became exoticized as young sexy “punkettes,” commodifying their surface appearances, but also how they are repeatedly heteronormalized as straight girls.
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