Hetero Huh?

[MrsSmith]

Hetero Huh?

December 16, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
 
Talking with some of my friends the other day, I got puzzled looks when I mentioned the war on “heteronormativity”—they had never heard the word before. Not all that surprising.  These friends went to school with me at a Christian college that didn’t speak the vernacular of political correctness and I hadn’t heard the word myself until I began working at the NAS. But the concept of “heteronormativity,” which dates from 1991, is now perfectly mainstream on college campuses, having trickled down from the queer theory vanguard at places like Yale all the way to such outposts of higher learning such as California’s Ohlone Community College—where it shows up in the syllabus for WS-101, Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies.  But for the sake of those still perplexed, I wanted to take a moment to clear things up. 

Heteronormativity is a bitter new term that campus administrators like to sprinkle on their trays of PC sugar cookies. College and university statements on diversity reject it along with racism, sexism, and ableism (bias against the disabled). So what does it mean? Essentially heteronormativity is the belief that it is normal to be heterosexual and abnormal to be homosexual. Wikipedia calls it:

a set of lifestyle norms which indicate or imply that (1) people fall into only one of two distinct and complementary sexes (male and female) with each having certain natural roles in life, and that (2) heterosexuality is the only normal sexual orientation, thus making sexual and marital relations appropriate only between members of the opposite sex.

On the website for her course, “Introduction to Theories of Gender and Sex,” Purdue professor Dino Felluga defines heteronormativity as “those punitive rules (social, familial, and legal) that force us to conform to hegemonic, heterosexual standards for identity.” Here it is used in a sentence in a Guardian article on Sarah Palin and soccer moms: “To others she's become lazy shorthand for white, middle class heteronormativity.” And here's an example of a heteronormative remark: "Why would you want to see Twilight? You're a guy."
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From the National Association of Scholars...(They aren't all Dim Libs.)   

[Chris]

... is a bitter new term that campus administrators like to sprinkle on their trays of PC sugar cookies

I love a good turn of phrase.  Thank you for the laugh.

[The Village Idiot]

Wow. Let us create new words while we destroy the meaning of existing ones.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

The joke is, you are paying for all this.

[vesta111]

Wow. Let us create new words while we destroy the meaning of existing ones.

 

Language changes constantly especially English. It has been said that the most intelligent society's had the most complex language.

We adopt words from other languages and make them our own. It gets complex when if you make a statement, the listener has a split second to know where you are going.

Example,  

Some one asks what you see out a window.  You say, the Blue-------Car.  Think about it, the freaking Blue WHAT.?

In most other languages one would say, the Car, it is blue.

English is interesting, we who speak the language seldom find anything in any other language that we cannot translate into our language.

WW2 taught us that the Japanese could not pronounce the letter L when speaking English.

Many a life was saved by that one small problem, Code words now Little Lulu, Lovely Linda, etc.

To speak Spanish one must be able to roll their tongue to pronounce the letter R.

German, Russian, Polish, etc. one often speaks from the back of the throat

English is spoken a couple hundred times differently in America.  Not just by geographic areas but by those that get an accent from -parents or peers.

Good way to spot a con-game.   If you run into someone who from another place and they have lived for more then 5-6 years with little contact with their home-boys.

Now say this person is from Mississippi, they still have that wonderful accent, but you two are in Down East Maine.

Unless one is for some reason trying to stand out from the others, or has a resentment of being where they are-----something is going on.

The brain is wired very strangely, allot of us know of friends and family that have moved across country and come home after 2 years or so.      

When they first arrive they have an accent from where they are living now. A day or two the accent turns over to that of family.

I Guess this is why I never did trust Scottie and that Scottish brogue,  all that time in space with a crew of people that actually had no real accent, even the Alians from other places spoke as everyone on the crew did, but Scottie still spoke as if he were in the fields of Scottland tending sheep.

It is dangerous to go too far in changing words meaning,  interesting ploy on the part of the control freaks to confuse and educate a new generation in the NEW meaning of the word.

Hey Bro, that's a bad hat.----------------------So bad is now good ?

So what do we do with the word good.?       That's a good piece of crap.   Good riddance to that. Good grief,   ---Goodie-goodie two shoes.?

 My flight of ideas that you FGL set off, has about run its course.

Time for me to take my meds and get back in my room for bed check.   I hope they send in a HOT orderly to check me out.

              



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[Splashdown]

Wow. Let us create new words while we destroy the meaning of existing ones.

 

Not to highjack the thread, put a parent of a student of mine a couple years ago said the boy suffered from "work aversion disorder."

 

[littlelamb]

It seems that they make up words whenever it is to their benefit

[The Village Idiot]

Not to highjack the thread, put a parent of a student of mine a couple years ago said the boy suffered from "work aversion disorder."

 

haha

[The Village Idiot]

fix broken quote tag........... 

I like the english I grew up with, I want it back. heh