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View submission: How is heteronormativity not "political"?
This would fall into the appeal to tradition fallacy. Normality is invisible as people fail to recognize the status quo is always a social construction.
I'm struggling to give one specific theory/reading recommendation, as the opposition against this type of thinking is baked into the whole of queer theory. Being a poststructuralist project, queer theory actively works to identify how these dominant views of heteronormality are naturalized (i.e., taken for granted as just how the world works) and demonstrate how they are actually creations.
Butler's work on performativity/discursive formation in *Gender Trouble* was a response to such thinking. While heteronormativity claims to be prediscursive (i.e., a natural fact), it is constructed and maintained culturally through discourse. The repeated performance of "normality" simultaneously creates said normality.
EDIT: Wanted to clarify that this invisibility of heteronormativity is exactly what "naturalization" is. They cannot see it as political because dominant ideology is made to seem natural.
Comment by bluer289 at 20/09/2024 at 16:39 UTC
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I see it more as power dynamics and privilege.