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heteropatriarchy
[het-er-oh-pey-tree-ahr-kee]
noun
plural
heteropatriarchiesa hierarchical society or culture dominated by heterosexual males whose characteristic bias is unfavorable to gay people and females in general.
Clearly, their goal is to establish a new heteropatriarchy.
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- heteropatriarchal adjective
- heteropatriarchic adjective
- heteropatriarchical adjective
- heteropatriarcalism noun
- heteropatriarchally adverb
- heteropatriarchically adverb
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of heteropatriarchy1
Example Sentences
In the chapter on cruising, he explores how a practice associated with pursuit of sex can be a model for life outside the structure of heteropatriarchy: āMaking a queer world has required the development of kinds of intimacy that bear no necessary relation to domestic space, to kinship, to the couple form, to property, or to the nation.ā
As writer Soraya Chemaly told my Salon colleague, Mary Elizabeth Williams, women are "quiet quitting from heteropatriarchy" already.
"We don't call it a protest, because it's not the typical protest led by a charismatic leader in the streets. Women are quiet quitting from heteropatriarchy."
Itās been a long time since a movie has been this delightfully, unapologetically and hilariously vicious in satirizing the heteropatriarchy of high-school hegemony.
A self-taught artist based in Pittsburgh, Germanās work examines āthe historical and ongoing dimensional catastrophes of structural racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, resource extraction, and misogynoir.ā
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