metronormative
metronormative adjective: of or pertaining to the ideals and narratives that assert that all queer people live more prosperous lives in urban cities over rural places.
Adjective
metronormative (comparative more metronormative, superlative most metronormative)
- Of or pertaining to the ideals and narratives that assert that all queer people live more prosperous lives in urban cities over rural places.
- Metronormative thinking links welcoming, safe, and liberated with the city and dangerous, homophobic, and closeted with the rural.In plain sight an exploration of gay rights, LGBTQ women, and rural place
- Metronormative narratives treat rural regions as a spatial closet out of which LGBTQ+ people must emerge by moving to the city and realizing “the full expression of the sexual self."2020, Maxwell Cloe, Metronormativity
Forms of metronormative
| comparative | more metronormative |
|---|---|
| superlative | most metronormative |
Origin of metronormative
From metro- + normative.
Words formed from metronormative
Questions about metronormative
- What does metronormative mean?
- Metronormative means of or pertaining to the ideals and narratives that assert that all queer people live more prosperous lives in urban cities over rural places.
- What part of speech is metronormative?
- Metronormative is an adjective.
Words near metronormative in the dictionary
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