heteropatriarchy

American  

[het-er-oh-pey-tree-ahr-kee] / ˌhɛt ər oʊˈpeɪ triˌɑr ki /

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 Word Forms

• heteropatriarcalism noun
• heteropatriarchal adjective
• heteropatriarchally adverb
• heteropatriarchic adjective
• heteropatriarchical adjective
• heteropatriarchically adverb

Etymology

Origin of heteropatriarchy

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

Example Sentences

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

From Salon

"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."

From Salon

There’s the smart update on the material that wants to dig into heteropatriarchy as so threatened by a little light witchcraft.

From Los Angeles Times

Drawing lessons from these and others, the gay rights movement, after a period of relative smoldering, sparked off with a bang at the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and marched into a decade of radical political imagination and challenges to the prevailing heteropatriarchy.

From Slate

The intellectual battlefields today are on college campuses, where students' deep convictions about race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation and their social justice antipathy toward capitalism, imperialism, racism, white privilege, misogyny and “cissexist heteropatriarchy” have bumped up against the reality of contradictory facts and opposing views, leading to campus chaos and even violence.

From Scientific American