<p>The context where heard hetero-normative made me laugh. As related: apparently there was a group read of THE JOY OF SEX (don’t ask, don’t tell), passing it around a circle, reading in turn. Someone asked, “Isn’t this awfully hetero-normative?” </p>
<p>I wish I had a <em>little</em> more context but I don’t. It does bring to mind a rather famous science fiction & fantasy story called “The Eye of Argon.” (You’ll probably find it if you Google.) It is execrably bad. It was not published but some editor had the lapse of judgment to make a copy and circulate it. It sometimes surfaces in a writing workshop where, as an exercise, people go around the circle trying to read it. The reader continues until he/she laughs, at which point the manuscript passes. Some of the readings are astonishingly brief. And I do mean <em>astonishingly</em>, as in half a sentence. </p>
<p>I once knew someone who could read two pages without cracking up. Problem was, he was a pretty poor writer himself and tone deaf to numerous issues in the manuscript. But I digress.</p>