super straight
super straight adjective: being sexually attracted only to cisgender people of the opposite sex.
Adjective
super straight (not comparable)
- Being sexually attracted only to cisgender people of the opposite sex.
- These TikTok users have also come up with a flag to symbolize 'super straight' people. The flag is made up of black and orange colors. Several users have made the flag their profile picture or have been using it on their bio.2021 March 7, Prerna Nambiar, “What is super straight movement on TikTok? Super straight flag gets slammed”, in HITC, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2021
- Super straight, yeah, you can check the flag / I was bisexual for a minute, but switched back2021 March 7, “Super Straight”performed by LilCockPump
- Relating to the community of individuals identifying as super straight.
- Online vendors started hawking "super straight" apparel to further ridicule the LGBTQ pride movement by mimicking pride merchandise.2021 March 14, Morgan Sung, “The 'super straight' campaign taking over TikTok is actually just ugly transphobic trolling”, in Mashable, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022
- At school the next day, a group of students hung "super straight" flags, referring to a transphobic identity claimed by some individuals who only date cis people, in the halls.2022 September 21, Nico Lang, “The Precarious State of School GSAs”, in Them, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2022
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see super, straight.
Noun
super straight (plural super straights)
- A person who identifies as super straight.
- Nobody is required to date or have sex with trans people, but it's eerily violent to organize an identity and a movement around excluding them. For Super Straights to do just that, while claiming that they're persecuted is the ultimate irony.2021 March 15, Michelle Santiago Cortés, “The Super Straights Are Definitely Not Okay”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2022
- To make the point they're trying to desperately prove legit, the Super Straights have come with a flag and merchandise though it's not quite sure who's buying it yet or who came up with the inspired colour scheme.2021 March 24, Jaishree Kumar, “Inside the 'Super Straight' Movement That Got Banned on TikTok and Reddit”, in VICE, archived from the original on 27 May 2022
Examples of super straight in a sentence
- We also encountered numerous posts referring to the trend as "SS pride" and one talking about tattooing the SS rune as part of their "Super Straight pride."2021 March 11, Nur Ibrahim, “Did the 'Super Straight' Trend Originate With Nazis on 4chan?”, in Snopes, archived from the original on 27...
- According to super straight "advocates", this sexual orientation describes cisgender people who are only attracted to cisgender individuals of the opposite gender.2022 June 14, “Is there a straight Pride flag? Exploring the controversy of the heterosexual flag”, in LGBTQ Nation, archived from the...
- "These men are known as Super Straights.2021 April 7, Conor Friedersdorf, “The Sexual Identity That Emerged on TikTok”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2021:
- Gold star gays/lesbians are just as transphobic as super straights.2021 November 7, Rose Montoya, “Trans 101 by Rose Montoya: Gold Star Gays/Lesbians Transphobic?”, in Los Angeles Blade, archived from the...
Forms of super straight
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | superstraight |
| alternative form | super-straight |
| alternative form | Super Straight |
| Noun | |
| plural | super straights |
Origin of super straight
Coined by Canadian TikToker Kyle Royce in a video posted on February 21, 2021, in which he explained that he had begun identifying as "super straight" in order to avoid accusations of transphobia for not wanting to date transgender people. It was later popularized by the 4chan board /pol/.
Questions about super straight
- What does super straight mean?
- Super straight means being sexually attracted only to cisgender people of the opposite sex.
- How do you use super straight in a sentence?
- We also encountered numerous posts referring to the trend as "SS pride" and one talking about tattooing the SS rune as part of their "Super Straight pride."
- What part of speech is super straight?
- Super straight can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near super straight in the dictionary
Source and license
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