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Heteronormativity

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Heteronormativity is the assumption, built into a society's institutions, that heterosexual attraction is the default and every other orientation departs from it.

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A form that provides only "husband" and "wife" fields encodes the assumption before anyone fills it in.

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The assumption can operate without hostile intent, through defaults nobody examined rather than through decisions anyone made.