Anita Sarkeesian

We are witnessing a very slow and painful cultural shift. Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change. They believe games should continue to cater exclusively to young heterosexual men with ever more extreme virtual power fantasies.

Canadian Critic

Jerry Falwell

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

American Clergyman

Whitney Wolfe Herd

The dynamic of how women and men are meant to interact, for those of us who are looking for a heterosexual relationship, is very broken, and it leads to a lot of really dysfunctional relationships, abusive and otherwise.

American Businesswoman

Tituss Burgess

There is still a great deal of self-hatred that we refuse to deal with because we are still measuring ourselves against the norms of a masculine, heterosexual world. That is the backdrop with which we measure the man.

American Actor

Michael Eric Dyson

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

American Author

Konkona Sen Sharma

There are only certain kinds of people who are shown falling in love. It's by and large always heterosexual, it is either thin or fair people. It's not like that in the real world.

Indian Actress

Sue Perkins

Sometimes I get into the mindset that being heterosexual is a brave new world, because you can conceive, and you work out the rest of it once you're pregnant.

English Comedian

Jasmine Guy

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.

American Actress

Ranbir Kapoor

I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.

Indian Actor

John Rocha

As a heterosexual designer, it is really, really important to have a woman's point of view.

Chinese Designer

Used to describe someone's sexual orientation, not just to specify gender.

Context Nuance

Be understanding and respectful when discussing sexual orientation, as this is a personal and cultural identity.

Cultural Sensitivity

Heterosexual is a factual term without negative or positive connotations.

Neutral Term

When using as a noun, it's identifying a person's sexual preference.

Personal Identity

It's a neutral way to refer to someone's orientation, used in formal and informal contexts.

Neutral Language

Do not assume someone's orientation; use 'heterosexual' only if known.

Avoid Assumptions

 think it means women. In each case, the dominant group doesn't get paid attention to. As if white people don't have some sort of racial identity or belong to some racial category or construct, as if heterosexual people don't have a sexual orientation, as if men don't have a gender. This is one of the ways that dominant systems maintain and reproduce themselves,

Jackson Katz: Violence...

 accounting for 50 percent of the world's millennials, it's clear that the white, often male, heterosexual narrative of the millennial is only telling half the story. Now, there's many people trying to broaden the palette. They're fighting to get their stories told and bust the millennial stereotype.

The story we tell about...

 by making this audience participation. All right. Are you with me? Yeah. Yeah. All right. So what I'd like to do is have you raise your hand if you've ever heard a heterosexual couple having sex. Could be the neighbors, hotel room, your parents. Sorry. Okay. Pretty much everybody.

Are we sexual omnivores?...

 And it's really different within each country. Look at the provinces of Kenya. They are very different. And this is the situation you see. It's not deep poverty. It's the special situation, probably of concurrent sexual partnership among part of the heterosexual population

Hans Rosling: Let my...

 Her birth revolutionized the field of reproductive medicine. Given that approximately one in eight heterosexual couples has difficulty conceiving, and that homosexual couples and single parents often need clinical help to make a baby,

How in vitro fertilizatio...

 That's the kind where the performers actually want to be there. Recently, I was working with a heterosexual couple that needed an arousal boost. They were trying to get back into sex after having a baby.

A Sex Therapist's Secret...

 I'm looking for is a solid sound relationship with a heterosexual guy so it is the end for me but it's the end one part of my life and it's the beginning of a new part it's a rebirth

Sex Change PIPE National...

 heterosexual people on their relationships and you might say well what would he know and then you realize he has deep insights into people and conduct and and so the urge to think he

Neil deGrasse Tyson on...

 is the effect of hormones. And here, I need to apologize for confining my comments to heterosexual norms. But estrogen and testosterone play important roles

How your brain decides...

 this is like a terrible conference to be single at when you're a heterosexual women oh sorry I didn't mean to label myself

Heterosexual

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