Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Now LEGO BLOCKS Can Discriminate Over Their Parts?! Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 19:45:43 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:45:43 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ce8c9936fb6b391f976d6a78761bbe6d"; logging-data="847747"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18KRWLs8i7GDcUXMvGG9xWO" User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Cancel-Lock: sha1:nVz7G7HI2SAyHClbPo94QmR/akk= Bytes: 1523 On Feb 9, 2025 at 10:37:20 AM PST, "moviePig" wrote: > This is an example of applying heteronormative language to topics > unrelated to gender, sex and reproduction. It illustrates how > heteronormativity (the idea that heterosexuality and the male/female > gender binary are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual) That's literally true. Heterosexuality *is* the norm. They're arguing here that something that's true shouldn't be true.