51³Ō¹Ļ

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heteropatriarchy

[het-er-oh-pey-tree-ahr-kee]

noun

plural

heteropatriarchies 
  1. a 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.



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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • heteropatriarchal adjective
  • heteropatriarchic adjective
  • heteropatriarchical adjective
  • heteropatriarcalism noun
  • heteropatriarchally adverb
  • heteropatriarchically adverb
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of heteropatriarchy1

First recorded in 1980–85; hetero- ( def. ) + patriarchy ( def. )
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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

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: ā€œMaking 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€

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As writer Soraya Chemaly told my Salon colleague, Mary Elizabeth Williams, women are "quiet quitting from heteropatriarchy" already.

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"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."

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It’s been a long time since a movie has been this delightfully, unapologetically and hilariously vicious in satirizing the heteropatriarchy of high-school hegemony.

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A self-taught artist based in Pittsburgh, German’s work examines ā€œthe historical and ongoing dimensional catastrophes of structural racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, resource extraction, and misogynoir.ā€

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