re: White feminist on why she decided to cut off her dreadlocks

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heteronormative

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What does that mean? I think I know what it means.

(adjective)
denoting or relating to a world view that promotes heterosexuality as the normal or preferred sexual orientation.


Usage spiked in...2010. Never a word until 2000.


We couldn't find direct synonyms for the term HETERONORMATIVE.
Maybe you were looking for one of these terms?
heteromyidae, heteronereis, heteronomous, heteronomy, heteronormalize, heteronormatively, heteronormativity, heteronuclear, heteronym, heteronymous


Not really, but let's see if I can learn anything about these other hetero terms...


Heteromyidae is a family of rodents comprised by kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, and pocket mice. Most heteromyids live in complex burrows within the deserts and grasslands of western North America, though species within the genera Heteromys and Liomys are also found in forests and their range extends down as far as northern South America.

heteronereis - a free-swimming dimorphic sexual individual of certain polychaete worms (family Nereidae) characterized by greatly enlarged eyes, enlarged and modified parapodia and other appendages, and more or less complete obliteration of the internal viscera by masses of developing germ cells

heteronymous - subject to a law or standard external to itself.
(in Kantian moral philosophy) acting in accordance with one's desires rather than reason or moral duty.
subject to different laws.

Heteronomy refers to action that is influenced by a force outside the individual. Immanuel Kant, drawing on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, considered such an action nonmoral. It is the counter/opposite of autonomy.


Holy crap, just from the first couple of terms I learned a whole lot about the planet and the people on it, not anything from the first term.

If anyone is interested,

She did an interview with the Channel 4 news team:

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I let my leg and armpit hair grow long, and I let the hair on my head spiral into a nest of cords, matts, and tangles (a hairdo I would later ignorantly and appropriatively refer to as dreadlocks).

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As long as I had them, the pressure – well for me as a cis gender white woman – to achieve mainstream, heteronormative beauty standards was off the table.

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People were constantly making comments under their breath when they passed me about “cultural appropriation”

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Some friends eventually suggested some readings and resources that would help me understand. I read them and learned more about the history and symbolism of dreadlocks in the US in context to black folk’s resistance movements against white supremacy

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learned that black folks in the US with dreadlocks are not seen as “quirky” or “alternative,” but as “dangerous” and “militant”.

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I realized that I was participating in the shitty reality that, for centuries, white people have felt entitled to taking pretty much anything their hearts desire

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We live in an intercultural society. Black women wear white hairstyles, so what’s up with the double standard?”

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Black women are told that in order to appear “respectable” in US society, they need to invest an obscene amount of time and energy into making themselves “look more white.”

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Due to this fricked-up societal pressure – and due to the institutional power that white people have in determining mainstream beauty standards – it’s not the same.

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Oh if I took it personally I would've wished you were more than moderately inconvenienced today.

Like I hope some old lady has 16 items in the 12 items or less lane. Take that!

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I bet we're going into Demi Moore level bush territory here.

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Scroll on down to the bottom and Segway right into "25 examples of rape culture

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