hi sorry i’m dumb but what does comphet mean?

nonbicanary:

cronacourse:

nonbicanary:

it’s compulsory heterosexuality, which is a phenomenon lesbians experience where they experience this sort of ‘false’ attraction to men because they’re expected to be attracted to men by society and experience a lot of pressure to be attracted to men. it can include stuff like only being attracted to fictional men, wanting men to be attracted to you, wanting to be attracted to men but feeling uncomfortable and gross when you do experience attraction to men, or hair straight-up forcing yourself to date men because you think you can tolerate it

this is probably not the best explanation lesbians please add on

this is actually a rlly good explanation tbh

the simplest way to frame it is that it’s common for lesbians to be so socialized into heteronormativity so much that we like men in theory, but not practice – meaning there’s a false interest in men until those men actually become attainable to us, and when men show interest in us it’s actually repulsive. if your attraction to men is exclusively to fictional or unattainable men (like celebrities), you aren’t genuinely attracted to men.

thank you for adding on!!