[ SECRET POST #4609 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4609 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The problem isn't heterosexuality so much as the trope of having to pair up any attractive woman in the movie with a man. A woman is not allowed to reach the end of the film single as her arc is never about her personal interests or development outside of what the male protagonist wants. She must be given as a prize to the man who is framed to deserve her most. This trope is sometimes called compulsory heterosexuality.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought compulsory heterosexuality meant people believing themselves to be heterosexual because they lack sufficient examples of other sexual orientations to see themselves in, but most of it comes from real life straight people being open about it and non-straight people being covert or closeted, not from fictional het couples.

The trope you described... is a trope, but it's not what "compulsory heterosexuality" means.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT—I always thought compulsory heterosexuality was referring to the cultural background noise that just assumes/pushes the assumption that heterosexuality is the only option.

So irl, in news stories, in fictional media... everything from parents making jokes about how their two year old is such a heartbreaker with his little “girlfriends” in preschool to movies having flimsy lackluster het romances shoehorned in no matter how badly they fit, like canned escargot on a birthday cake is compulsory heterosexuality.