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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 yvlog Forms

  • ···貹·ٰ··󲹱 [het-er-oh-pey-tree-, ahr, -k, uh, l], ···貹·ٰ··󾱳 [het-er-oh-pey-tree-, ahr, -kik] ···貹·ٰ··· adjective
  • ···貹·ٰ··· noun
  • ···貹·ٰ··󲹱·ly ···貹·ٰ····ly adverb
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yvlog 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: “Making 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.”

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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 “the historical and ongoing dimensional catastrophes of structural racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, resource extraction, and misogynoir.”

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