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(LGBT, feminism) The idea that heterosexuality can and should be adopted by individuals regardless of their own sexual orientation.

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compulsory heterosexuality

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compulsory heterosexuality

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(LGBT, feminism) The idea that heterosexuality can and should be adopted by individuals regardless of their own sexual orientation.

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個人の性的指向にかかわらず、異性愛を社会的に当然かつ強制的なものとして採用すべきだという思想 / 異性愛を唯一の「正常な」性指向とみなす圧力・規範や構造

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Many queer activists critique compulsory heterosexuality as a social institution that pressures people to conform to heterosexual norms.

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多くのクィア活動家は、異性愛の強制を人々を異性愛規範に従わせようとする社会制度として批判しています。

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(LGBT, feminism) The idea that heterosexuality can and should be adopted by individuals regardless of their own sexual orientation.

In none of these books, which concern themselves with mothering, sex roles, relationships, and societal prescriptions for women, is compulsory heterosexuality ever examined as an institution powerfully affecting all these; or the idea of "preference" or "innate orientation" even indirectly questioned.

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