heterofatalist

plural heterofatalists

1. neologismSynonym of heteropessimist.

   Even if "heterofatalists" won't simply ditch everything and devote themselves to imagining intimacy differently, their performative dissatisfaction with (hetero) sexuality is the first step in doing so.

   2024, Maria Markiewicz, “Sexuality Is Over. Long Live Asexuality: Post-Sexuality in the Post-Post Era”, in KJ Cerankowski, Megan Milks, editors, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, unnumbered page

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   The point here is not that heterofatalists’ gestures of disaffiliation are insincere, rather, that they are ‘performative’ because unaccompanied by collective experiments in abandoning, or even torquing, heterosexuality.

   2020, Sophie Lewis, “Collective Turn-off”, in Mal

   Staying true to Claire's assertion – 'I wouldn't change anything' (1:32:02) – in Time Traveller's Wife, heterofatalists recognise the limitations of compulsory heterosexuality but remain fully attached to it while ostensibly making the gesture to reject it wholesale.

   2023 March 29, Chiara Pellegrini, “Anticipating the plot: overdetermining heteronormative destiny on the twenty-first century screen”, in Textual Practice, volume 37, number 3, page 415

   Synonyms: heteropessimist

comparative more heterofatalist · superlative most heterofatalist

1. Synonym of heteropessimist.

   “I’m attracted to men because I love making bad choices,” goes one quintessentially heterofatalist tweet.

   2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2025

   Synonyms: heteropessimist