But, equally (and much more dubiously) the United States in the 1950s took over the discourse of reaction that the Nazis had pursued so effectively: hence the Cold War sex panic over
heterosexuality echoed the Nazi persecution just fifteen years earlier.
Adams hence contributes to a growing number of works that examine
heterosexuality from the outside as a "dominant cultural discourse." (p.
He became panicked by the turn-of-the-century emphasis on manliness and
heterosexuality and the anti-semites' indictment of Jews as degenerate (homosexual), based on the traditional view of them as effeminate.
Each week long lines of people would come forward to witness and be welcomed and blessed as they come out--a little bop on the forehead to heal them from
heterosexuality, and they would fall backward in the welcoming arms of other gay people.
The nature of the problem to be discussed can be indicated by asking whether homosexuality and
heterosexuality are biological categories that divide the world into a majority and a minority that can be found in all times and places.
As with
heterosexuality, it is a matter for privacy, no one else's business.
Reconsidering Radical Feminism: Affect and the Politics of
HeterosexualityLord knows what else could fall out of me" Singer Dolly Parton, who refuses to go on rollercoaster rides "I find
heterosexuality far too interesting a phenomenon to avoid!
Heterosexuality seems to be a widespread human condition, and yet science hasn't found its cause.
The paper generates insights about Wittig's account of sex as a fictive category, her intrinsic examination of the connection between the regime of
heterosexuality and the categories of sex, her interest with feminism and anticolonial battles, and her substitution of phallogocentrism.
Perhaps this is evidence of the power of "compulsory
heterosexuality," a term coined by Adrienne Rich in her 1980 article "Compulsory
Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence." Feminist theorist Mariana Valverde compares compulsory
heterosexuality to "the water within which fish swim," a metaphor for the insidious nature of compulsory
heterosexuality, which "pushes properly gendered men and women into couples and makes them believe this is a free choice." Valverde argues that compulsory
heterosexuality affects us all, but is particularly detrimental to women, as compliance ties the identity of a woman to her male partner.