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Guaranteed Human.

Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Stuff I'll Never Told you, a production of IHeart Radio.

And today is December 11th, 2025.

We're getting towards the end of the year.

And as mentioned, we're trying to, for now, do lighter topics.

January is going to come in like a wrecking ball, I think.

But as we're moving through this, we're trying to do later topics.

And I've kind of failed at picking.

I thought I had one with this one and it didn't.

I don't know what I was thinking.

But we are talking about compulsory heterosexuality today, or comp head.

And I've been thinking about this for a lot for a while because of our discussion around the, you know, is having a boyfriend embarrassing thing, the normal gay discourse that's happening to.

So I just kind of was like, and also, to be honest with you,

I've seen this playing out in some fandoms recently. So I'm like, let's just talk about what this is.

So we actually have talked about this before. But yes, yes. But to define compulsory heterosexuality is the idea that heterosexuality is something that is enforced by the patriarchy as the norm. It is an internalized feeling

that keeps queer people from questioning or coming out or exploring their sexuality. It's related to

terms like heteronormativity and internalized homophobia, but they're not the same thing.

Heteronormitivity is sort of the like thing that leads to compulsory heterosexuality.

It impacts everyone, even if you didn't grow up in a homophobic environment,

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