History Main / HetIsEw

The extreme versions are the kind who write hate mail to authors for daring to give their male shipped characters a wife, and impose DieForOurShip on any female character who so much as has sexual tension with one of "their" guys, often in the most sadistic and humiliating ways. Other times, people proclaiming that HetIsEw are just tired of the ubiquity of het romance plots in all variety of fiction and the tropes that go with them, particularly the stereotyping of everyone involved. (Ironically, said heteronormative romance dynamics frequently show up in the slash genre as well, with [[{{Seme}} one character]] still playing a stereotypical male role, while [[{{Uke}} the other]] [[{{Wimpification}} takes]] a stereotypically female one, sometimes up to [[MisterSeahorse getting pregnant]].) The sentiment is also somewhat common among jaded and vengeful subsets of queer/trans people, who take to describing straight characters with the same disdain that queer relationships are often treated with. Despite this, the intensity of the extremists has been known to [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings scare artists away or make them outright refuse]] to draw yaoi or yuri (or at least force them to write under a different name).

* In ''Yuri Danshi'', the protagonist hates the idea of hetero pairings because he thinks men ([[InternalizedCatagorism himself included]]) are filthy creatures that will ruin a girl's natural relationship with other girls.

* The Worm fandom in general. Taylor Hebert is straight in canon. In fanfiction however, it is possible to count on two hand how many times she has a straight relationship with anyone.

The extreme versions are the kind who write hate mail to authors for daring to give their male shipped characters a wife, and impose DieForOurShip on any female character who so much as has sexual tension with one of "their" guys, often in the most sadistic and humiliating ways. However more often than not, normal fans of Het is Ew are those who are just tired of the ubiquity of het romance plots in all variety of fiction and the tropes that go with them, particularly the stereotyping of everyone involved. [[note]] Ironically, said heteronormative romance dynamics frequently show up in slash genre as well, with [[{{Seme}} one character]] still playing a stereotypical male role, while [[{{Uke}} the other]] [[{{Wimpification}} takes]] a stereotypically female one, sometimes up to [[MisterSeahorse getting pregnant]]. [[/note]] Despite this, the intensity of the extremists has been known to [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings scare artists away or make them outright refuse]] to draw yaoi or yuri (or at least force them to write under a different name).

** The men in town decide to destroy the future immigrant population by having a massive gay orgy, hoping to make the entire world gay to wipe out the species. ItMakesSenseInContext. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Kind of]].
** PlayedWith in "South Park is Gay," when the metrosexual craze hits South Park and all the boys, save for Kyle, begin dressing and acting in a stereotypically gay manner, without being actually gay. Kyle is mercilessly teased by all his friends for not acting metrosexual.

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See also {{Het}}. Not at all related to disparaging [[BilingualBonus the Russian word for 'No' or finding the Dutch ungendered equivalent of "the" ugly]]. Pre-pubescent boys may feel GirlsHaveCooties, but that usually changes when they're older.

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings''. At one point, Commander hosts a camp with a few other characters(all of which are canonically not straight, like [[VideoGame/MassEffect Commander Shepard]], [[Comicbook/{{Deadpool}} Deadpool]], [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Iron Bull]] and Comicbook/WonderWoman), when one of them revelas himself to be straight, everyone is either disgusted or thinks he haven't met the right guy yet.

See also {{Het}}. Not at all related to disparaging [[BilingualBonus the Russian word for 'No' or finding the Dutch ungendered equivalent of "the" ugly]].

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* Tom Tomorrow's strip ''This Modern World'' had one strip set centuries in the future, where straight people were referred to as "breeders." A parade of straight activists is chanting "We're straight--we mate--get used to it!" One man, watching this, mutters "Perverts," shuddering.
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Counterintuitively, there may be a homophobic element to this trope in some cases; straight people who subscribe to the notion may feel that their own sexuality is threatened if they find a work that includes a member of their own sex arousing. This is one of the reasons for the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot prevalence of lesbian porn aimed at straight men]]; viewers don't need to [[StupidSexyFlanders worry about being turned on by another guy]]. There is also an air of misogyny with people who endorse HetIsEw since not only are female-female pairings ''much'' rarer than male-male ones [[note]](even in franchises like ''Franchise/Alien'', with prominent female leads)[[/note]], the women in het ships get the most hate and slash pairings often kill off or demonize the female characters in order to enable ships with men only. There's also a case for elements of biphobia, where romantic relationships involving characters of the opposite sex are attacked or invalidated as heteronormative for being [[NoBisexuals mutually exclusive]] with the capacity for same-sex attraction, even when one or more of the characters involved is already canonically bisexual. Finally misandry is also an arguable factor, as there is the assumption [[AllGaysArePromiscuous that a male]] [[AllMenArePerverts cannot have emotional closeness]] [[ImAManICantHelpIt to anyone]] - ''[[IncestYayShipping even family members]]'' - [[AManIsAlwaysEager without sex]] [[AManIsNotAVirgin being a factor]].

Counterintuitively, there may be a homophobic element to this trope in some cases; straight people who subscribe to the notion may feel that their own sexuality is threatened if they find a work that includes a member of their own sex arousing. This is one of the reasons for the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot prevalence of lesbian porn aimed at straight men]]; viewers don't need to [[StupidSexyFlanders worry about being turned on by another guy]]. There is also an air of misogyny with people who endorse HetIsEw since not only are female-female pairings ''much'' rarer than male-male ones (even in franchises like Film/{{Aliens}}, with prominent female leads), the women in het ships get the most hate and slash pairings often kill off or demonize the female characters in order to enable ships with men only. There's also a case for elements of biphobia, where romantic relationships involving characters of the opposite sex are attacked or invalidated as heteronormative for being [[NoBisexuals mutually exclusive]] with the capacity for same-sex attraction, even when one or more of the characters involved is already canonically bisexual. Finally misandry is also an arguable factor, as there is the assumption [[AllGaysArePromiscuous that a male]] [[AllMenArePerverts cannot have emotional closeness]] [[ImAManICantHelpIt to anyone]] - ''[[IncestYayShipping even family members]]'' - [[AManIsAlwaysEager without sex]] [[AManIsNotAVirgin being a factor]].

Counterintuitively, there may be a homophobic element to this trope in some cases; straight people who subscribe to the notion may feel that their own sexuality is threatened if they find a work that includes a member of their own sex arousing. This is one of the reasons for the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot prevalence of lesbian porn aimed at straight men]]; viewers don't need to [[StupidSexyFlanders worry about being turned on by another guy]]. There is also an air of misogyny with people who endorse HetIsEw since the women in het ships get the most hate and slash pairings often kill off or demonize the female characters in order to enable ships with men only. As well as elements of biphobia, where romantic relationships involving characters of the opposite sex are attacked or invalidated as heteronormative for being [[NoBisexuals mutually exclusive]] with the capacity for same-sex attraction, even when one or more of the characters involved is already canonically bisexual. Add misandry on top of it, as there is the assumption [[AllGaysArePromiscuous that a male]] [[AllMenArePerverts cannot have emotional closeness]] [[ImAManICantHelpIt to anyone]] - ''[[IncestYayShipping even family members]]'' - [[AManIsAlwaysEager without sex]] [[AManIsNotAVirgin being a factor]].

This is a subculture-within-a-subculture. This can range from people who merely prefer to pair off every character they like with another of the same sex to the more extreme people who appear to argue that writing slash is a politically liberating act. Queer fans, for example, may have an averse reaction to the heteronormativity of the media and respond by augmenting queer representation in a work. [[note]] The counterargument is that saying slash is about as realistic about male-male relationships as your average SpaceOpera is about physics. And while it is true that there's a lack of queer representation in mainstream media, it's also true that ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' [[IReadItForTheArticles has high-quality articles]] [[/note]] Occasionally it can be an unexpected by-product of backlash against the addition of MarySue {{Original Character}}s or "reducing" a female canonical character to (or dismissing her wholesale as) a mere LoveInterest by pairing up the male characters, who are perceived to be more interesting than the female ones. [[note]] Ironically, this means the fanfic writers are even ''worse'' about female character inclusion than the mainstream media producers [[/note]] This led to a widespread perception among FanFic writers that SlashFic with the canonical male characters is automatically of "higher" quality than a male/female pairing, which was [[{{Hypocrite}} assumed to be the (female) author's]] WishFulfillment.

This is a subculture-within-a-subculture. This can range from people who merely prefer to pair off every character they like with another of the same sex to the more extreme people who appear to argue that writing slash is a politically liberating act. Queer fans, for example, may have an averse reaction to the heteronormativity of the media and respond by augmenting queer representation in a work. [[note]] The counterargument is that saying slash is about as realistic about male-male relationships as your average SpaceOpera is about physics. And while it is true that there's a lack of queer representation in mainstream media, it's also true that ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' [[IReadItForTheArticles has high-quality articles]] [[/note]] Occasionally it can be an unexpected by-product of backlash against the addition of MarySue {{Original Character}}s or "reducing" a female canonical character to (or dismissing her wholesale as) a mere LoveInterest by pairing up the male characters, who are perceived to be more interesting than the female ones. [[note]] Ironically, this means the fanfic writers are even ''worse'' about female character inclusion than the mainstream media producers [[/note]] This led to a widespread perception among FanFic writers that SlashFic with the canonical male characters is automatically of "higher" quality than a male/female pairing, which was assumed to be the (female) author's wish fulfillment.

Counterintuitively, there may be a homophobic element to this trope in some cases; straight people who subscribe to the notion may feel that their own sexuality is threatened if they find a work that includes a member of their own sex arousing. This is one of the reasons for the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot prevalence of lesbian porn aimed at straight men]]; viewers don't need to [[StupidSexyFlanders worry about being turned on by another guy]]. There is also an air of misogyny with people who endorse HetIsEw since the women in het ships get the most hate and slash pairings often kill off or demonize the female characters in order to enable ships with men only. As well as elements of biphobia, where romantic relationships involving characters of the opposite sex are attacked or invalidated as heteronormative for being [[NoBisexuals mutually exclusive]] with the capacity for same-sex attraction, even when one or more of the characters involved is already canonically bisexual. Add misandry on top of it, as there is the assumption [[AllGaysArePromiscuous that a male]] [[AllMenArePerverts cannot have emotional closeness]] [[ImAManICantHelpIt to anyone]] [[AManIsAlwaysEager without sex]] [[AManIsNotAVirgin being a factor]].

Counterintuitively, there may be a homophobic element to this trope in some cases; straight people who subscribe to the notion may feel that their own sexuality is threatened if they find a work that includes a member of their own sex arousing. This is one of the reasons for the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot prevalence of lesbian porn aimed at straight men]]; viewers don't need to [[StupidSexyFlanders worry about being turned on by another guy]]. There is also an air of misogyny with people who endorse HetIsEw since the women in het ships get the most hate and slash pairings often kill off or demonize the female characters in order to enable ships with men only. As well as elements of biphobia, where romantic relationships involving characters of the opposite sex are attacked or invalidated as heteronormative for being [[NoBisexuals mutually exclusive]] with the capacity for same-sex attraction, even when one or more of the characters involved is already canonically bisexual. Add misandry on top of it, as there is the assumption that a male [[AllMenArePerverts cannot have emotional closeness]] to anyone [[AManIsAlwaysEager without sex]] [[AManIsNotAVirgin being a factor]].

Counterintuitively, there may be a homophobic element to this trope in some cases; straight people who subscribe to the notion may feel that their own sexuality is threatened if they find a work that includes a member of their own sex arousing. This is one of the reasons for the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot prevalence of lesbian porn aimed at straight men]]; viewers don't need to [[StupidSexyFlanders worry about being turned on by another guy]]. There is also an air of misogyny with people who endorse HetIsEw since the women in het ships get the most hate and slash pairings often kill off or demonize the female characters in order to enable ships with men only. As well as elements of biphobia, where romantic relationships involving characters of the opposite sex are attacked or invalidated as heteronormative for being [[NoBisexuals mutually exclusive]] with the capacity for same-sex attraction, even when one or more of the characters involved is already canonically bisexual.

This is a subculture-within-a-subculture. This can range from people who merely prefer to pair off every character they like with another of the same sex to the more extreme people who appear to argue that writing slash is a politically liberating act. Queer fans, for example, may have an averse reaction to the heteronormativity of the media and respond by augmenting queer representation in a work. Occasionally it can be an unexpected by-product of backlash against the addition of MarySue {{Original Character}}s just to pair off canonical characters.

The extreme versions are the kind who write hate mail to authors for daring to give their male shipped characters a wife, and impose DieForOurShip on any female character who so much as has sexual tension with one of "their" guys, often in the most sadistic and humiliating ways. However more often than not, normal fans of Het is Ew are those who are just tired of the ubiquity of het romance plots in all variety of fiction and the tropes that go with them, particularly the stereotyping of everyone involved. [[note]] Ironically, said het romance plots frequently show up in slash genre as well, with [[{{Seme}} one character]] still playing a typically male role, while [[{{Uke}} the other]] [[{{Wimpification}} takes]] a typically female one, sometimes up to [[MisterSeahorse getting pregnant]]. [[/note]] Despite this, the intensity of the extremists has been known to [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings scare artists away or make them outright refuse]] to draw yaoi or yuri (or at least force them to write under a different name).

Counterintuitively, there may be a homophobic element to this trope in some cases; straight people who subscribe to the notion may feel that their own sexuality is threatened if they find a work that includes a member of their own sex arousing. This is one of the reasons for the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot prevalence of lesbian porn aimed at straight men]]; viewers don't need to [[StupidSexyFlanders worry about being turned on by another guy]]. There is also an air of misogyny
with people who indorse {{HETISEW}} since the women in het ships get the most hate and slash pairings often kill of female characters in order to enable ships with men.

with people who indorse HETISEW since works featuring women having sex get the most hate and with slash pairings often killing of female characters.

Counterintuitively, there may be a homophobic element to this trope in some cases; straight people who subscribe to the notion may feel that their own sexuality is threatened if they find a work that includes a member of their own sex arousing. This is one of the reasons for the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot prevalence of lesbian porn aimed at straight men]]; viewers don't need to [[StupidSexyFlanders worry about being turned on by another guy]].

This is a subculture-within-a-subculture; these people are often both a {{Yaoi Fan|girl}} and a YuriFan yet reject heterosexual pairings. This can range from people who merely prefer to pair off every character they like with another of the same sex to the more extreme people who appear to argue that writing slash is a politically liberating act. Queer fans, for example, may have an averse reaction to the heteronormativity of the media and respond by augmenting queer representation in a work. Occasionally it can be an unexpected by-product of backlash against the addition of MarySue {{Original Character}}s just to pair off canonical characters.

Counterintuitively, there may be a homophobic element to this trope in some cases; straight people who subscribe to the notion may feel that their own sexuality is threatened if they find a work that includes a member of their own sex arousing. This is one of the reasons for the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot prevalence of lesbian porn aimed at straight men]]; viewers don't need to [[StupidSexyFlanders worry about being turned on by another guy]]. Ironically, most female fans who subscribe to Het is Ew actually enjoy both {{Yaoi}} ''and'' {{Yuri}}, and will celebrate the explicit coupling of two girls as well as two guys (although they do usually prefer one subculture over the other to some extent), and male straight Yuri fans have been known to also enjoy Yaoi. The fact that the Yaoi and Yuri subcultures work together quite cooperatively may have something to do with this.

** PlayedWith in "South Park is Gay," when the metrosexual craze hits South Park and all the boys, save for Kyle, begin dressing and acting in a stereotypically gay manner, without being actually gay. Kyle is mercilessly teased by all his friends for acting straight.

* One DaveBarry column has California ban straight marriage in its effort to be the most liberal of states.