heteronormalize

== English == === Etymology === From hetero- +‎ normalize, on the pattern of heteronormative and heteronormativity. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hĕ'tərōnôʹməlīz, IPA(key): /ˌhɛtəɹəʊˈnɔːməlaɪz/ === Verb === heteronormalize (third-person singular simple present heteronormalizes, present participle heteronormalizing, simple past and past participle heteronormalized) (transitive) To alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative. 2007, April: Susan Driver, Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media, page 209 (illustrated edition; Peter Lang; →ISBN, 9780820479361) Kearney reveals not only how riot grrrls became exoticized as young sexy “punkettes,” commodifying their surface appearances, but also how they are repeatedly heteronormalized as straight girls. 2007, September: Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, and Sara Rushing, Histories of Postmodernism, page 245 (Routledge; →ISBN, 9780415956130) In other words, he ontologizes the symbolic and heteronormalizes us. ==== Translations ====