metronormativity
nounEtymology
From metro- + normativity.
Definitions
The assumption that urban cities are preferential homes for all Queer people over rural…
The assumption that urban cities are preferential homes for all Queer people over rural spaces.
- Metronormative thinking links welcoming, safe, and liberated with the city and dangerous, homophobic, and closeted with the rural.
- Metronormative narratives treat rural regions as a spatial closet out of which LGBTQ+ people must emerge by moving to the city and realizing “the full expression of the sexual self."
- The efficient way to tell this story is to consider metronormativity as its overall strategy, i.e. a dominant discourse, that puts urban dwelling gays and lesbians versus their rural counterparts in political orientation.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for metronormativity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA