Comments on: 100% heterosexual.

By: Me

Me — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:05:31 +0000

I like the term ‘heteronormative’ and I feel this is just part I of a wider discourse. Looking forward to Part II
I had not thought of it before but you are right – we do tend to define homosexuality “vis-a-vis the working norm” – sort of how most of much of what’s happening around the world is defined from the western perspective – India’s 911/Bollywood, anyone?
Great fodder for thought!

By: punkster

punkster — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:55:32 +0000

Good point Val, you can definitely extrapolate the ‘performance’ metaphor to anyone who dares to be different or transgressive, but I guess the consequences take on a particularly nasty turn, when the transgression in question relates to sexuality and sexual expression. And of course, this is just the start. I’ve only just begun peeling the layers off the heteronormativity onion.

By: Val

Val — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:33:28 +0000

You know punkster, you can extrapolate that experience to anyone who dares to be “different”. I hear in India, living in is slowly catching on as a preference. Out here in the middle east, sex before marriage is punishable with 3-12 months in prison and deportation. Something similar applies ‘cohabitation’: a term widely used to describe a man and woman who aren’t blood related or married living together. How is that for being oppressive? This, of course, is just the start.