Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Heteronormative

Jada Pinkett Smith made some comments at Harvard University that some students found offensive. In their complaint regarding her remarks, the offended parties labeled Smith's speech heteronormative -- a choice of vocabulary that (IMHO) really sends their point home.

Ah, college, the place where you assail plain speech with a word that does not appear either in Merriam-Webster or at Dictionary.com.

1 comment:

Andy said...

For those of you mid-thesis, it is worth noting that heteronormativity has a substantial Wikipedia definition available either there or at Answers.com.