New term for me! I don’t think it could even possibly apply, but the definition reads: “heterofatalism: performative disaffiliations with heterosexuality, usually expressed through regret, embarrassment or hopelessness about straight experiences.” And ‘straight experiences,’ is where you lose me 😆 what even is that, for me? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I am #queer enough, literally and figuratively, that I cannot even imagine what a “straight experience” would look like or be for me 😅

This is from an Alice Capelle video, which touches on #heteropessimism or #heterofatalism: youtu.be/2b82GT6tFyw?...

Alice is one of my favs 🤗

#feminism

The outlook is basically what we’d now call #heteropessimism.

Are Women Really Abandoning Men After Trump’s Win? Inside the Rise of ‘Heteropessimism.’ The election made clear that America’s gender divide is stark. What’s a heterosexual woman to do?

a movement that contains multitudes... of #WordOfTheYear candidates:
#selfpartnered
#boysober
#heteropessimism
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/s...

That's the reason bisexuals (typically females) who are heteropessimistic / hereterofatalistic still struggle to find same sex partners because they aren't in it for the right reasons. Theyre "bi by convenience" Julia bayleigh & ppl can tell

#heterofatalism #heteropessimism
#Hawthornwaite #pelham