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The Tragedy of Heterosexuality (Sexual Cultures, 56)

Jane Ward

Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot cam...

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The book was referenced as a key inspiration for Shantae Joseph's viral article and was discussed for its analysis of straight culture, queer perspectives, and the historical development of heterosexuality.

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One of the inspirations behind this piece was a book by Professor Jane Ward. Her book is called The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. And in the book, she has a chapter that is dedicated to the things that...

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The book was referenced as a key inspiration for Shantae Joseph's viral article and was discussed for its analysis of straight culture, queer perspectives, and the historical development of heterosexuality.

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One of the inspirations behind this piece was a book by Professor Jane Ward. Her book is called The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. And in the book, she has a chapter that is dedicated to the things that queer people say behind their straight friends' backs.

And Jane, you wrote a book that our last guest, Shantae Joseph, said was a bit of an inspiration for her viral article. The book was called The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.

So, you know, the book has clearly a provocative and playful title. But what got me thinking about this book is that queer people, at least in my orbit, had been having these conversations for decades. About are straight people okay?

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The book was reviewed in the New York Times book section, arguing that opposite-sex coupling, or heterosexuality, hurts the individuals who cling to it most, linking it to capitalism, misogyny, and hate.

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It's called The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. This is where things get real weird. Again, this is all the New York Times just promoting cultural propaganda from the Jacques Derrida deconstructionist lef...

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The book was reviewed in the New York Times book section, arguing that opposite-sex coupling, or heterosexuality, hurts the individuals who cling to it most, linking it to capitalism, misogyny, and hate.

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It's called The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. This is where things get real weird. Again, this is all the New York Times just promoting cultural propaganda from the Jacques Derrida deconstructionist left. It's bizarre.

The tragedy of heterosexuality waste absolutely no time getting to the point. While many of its sentences made me laugh out loud, it is at heart a somber urgent academic examinations of the many ways in which opposite sex coupling can hurt the very individuals who cling to it most.

Straight culture is at the heart of society's most disgraceful failures you see.

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