#heteronormitivity

[thefailingnewyorktimes]

the women who force expectations of masculinity and strength on the men in their lives are a fucking problem

[booksrockmyface]

Rant

Okay, so I got a new stove. I live in a town that has a hardware store and a furniture/appliance store. I don't really like going to either of them. The hardware store because I always feel like they think I'm an idiot when I ask for something. The other mostly because it's really crowded and I really don't have much need to go in.

So today I needed a part to install my stove. They didn't have it at the hardware store, so I had to go to the furniture store.

I got what I needed and went to check out. I pulled out my debit card and was told the minimum purchase price was $10 and the part was just over $5. I was ticked off enough about that, but then the woman asked, "Does your husband need oil or anything?"

My HUSBAND?!

MY HUSBAND?!

I was so mad I almost walked out without the part I needed.

Maybe I could need "oil or something."

Maybe I have a wife or girlfriend that needs "oil or something."

I went out to my car and dug through my change and practically threw on the counter. Thankfully another woman waited on me or I would have probably snapped. Not that I'm that kind of person, but I was mad on two counts and just wanted to be done.

[theladyoftheshadows]

It even rhymes.

[spilledparchment]

I’m sorry, but that’s just not true. I think a lot of folks have this attitude that it’s just ‘what happens in the bedroom’ and that it doesn’t affect anything else. You hear a lot, people complaining like ‘why are gay people always talking about being gay?’ as though straight people aren’t always talking about being straight. Y’all are, you just don’t realise it. Some of existing and being gay is stereotypical, sure, but it’s beyond just wanting people to use the correct gender when they’re talking about your significant other. I’m gay, and it changes everything about me. It’s shaped the entire way I am in the world.

Eric Bittle in The Jack Zimmerman Interview Series

[destielblamscilesinfinity]

NOOOOO

So, Stone is gonna marry Arrington. The woman who kept his child from him for 16 years. Stone and Dino make more sense! I HATE Arrington with a passion. Don't keep a good man's child from him.

Stupid heteronormitivity.

[destielblamscilesinfinity]

Rainbows

So, these Stone Barrington books are such queerbait! Stone and Dino act like a married couple in every book, despite Stone fucking a woman in just about every book.

To me, that's him trying to cover up his feelings for Dino. And others have pointed out to them that they act like a married couple. If it wasn't for heteronormitivity we might get Stone and Dino. Ugh.

[pegsmothman]

just another day in the life of your fav gay at work.

One of the elderly guys at work, thanks to the run up to valentines day, asked if I had a boyfriend. I said no and he said "you must be doing something wrong, a lovely girl like you" and he'd find me one.

Then apparently the guy who cleans the cafe was staring at my ass while I was bent over putting some stuff in a bag while closing the cafe

[acey-chey]

I need sources

Anybody have any good articles/posts/anything at all really about heteronormitivity and the ‘default setting’ of cisgender heterosexual assumption that pervades American society?

I’m writing a paper for Sociology and I need some sources to cite.