History Main / HetIsEw

** In one episode Jack has a panic attack when he becomes slightly aroused by a female stripper's lap dance. He learns the stripper is trans and he takes comfort in the UnfortunateImplication that she's not a "real woman".

* ''Series/TheOrville'': In "Deflectors" it's revealed that, keeping with the all-male society Moclans enforce, their culture has no tolerance for opposite-sex attraction. One is revealed to be straight or bixexual (it's unclear if he was ever actually attracted to Bortus, or simply used him as [[TheBeard cover]]), and it causes his apparent murder. In addition, their laws punish acting on or expressing attraction for the opposite sex with life in prison. [[spoiler: The episode ends with Locar facing this punishment.]]

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. LGBT fans, for example, may have an averse reaction to the heteronormativity of the media and respond by augmenting LGBT representation in a work. [[note]] The counterargument is that [[SturgeonsLaw most]] slash is about as realistic about same-sex relationships as your average SpaceOpera is about physics. And while it is true that there's a lack of LGBT 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 authors pairing up the male characters who are perceived to be more interesting than the [[SatelliteLoveInterest female]] [[StrangledByTheRedString 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.

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 [[TitleDrop Het Is Ew]] 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 LGBT people, who take to describing straight characters with the same disdain that LGBT 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).

It's worth noting that this is a fan-reaction Trope, dealing with the preference of a number of slash and yaoi fans to read about only same gender relationships. It's not about in-universe anti-heterosexual feelings expressed within a work of fiction.

'''InUniverse examples only please, and remember, this is about a specific attitude towards heterosexuality, not just gay pairings'''.

** Due to the limited amount of food that can be produced on clouds, the Grand Pegasus Enclave tacitly encourages being gay to keep the population numbers down.

* The 1992 short film ''Gayniggers from Outer Space'' shows space aliens arriving on Earth and "liberating" men by [[{{Gendercide}} exterminating women]] to create a [[OneGenderRace gay utopia]] led by a Gay Ambassador.

* The film ''[[http://www.loveisallyouneedthemovie.com/about.php Love Is All You Need]]'' shows an alternate universe in which [[PersecutionFlip being gay is the norm and heterosexuality is taboo.]]

* The surviving veterans of Joe Haldeman's ''Literature/TheForeverWar'' find themselves in a society where everyone is both gay and [[InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace a uniform shade of light brown]]. This began as a government policy of encouraging being gay as a method of limiting population growth, and became the standard once humanity began reproducing exclusively via {{Uterine Replicator}}s. One female character at this point even mentions thinking about men's genitals in contact with her makes her mildly disgusted. They offer to switch the main character's orientation through a minor surgery, but he declines, knowing that [[IncompatibleOrientation his orientation is incompatible with everyone]] which forces him to live in abstinence. The soldiers under his command take to nicknaming him "the old queer."

* In the ''Series/{{Ellen}}'' episode "It's a Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay World!", Spence gets knocked out and [[DreamLand dreams]] he lives in a world where being gay is the norm and heterosexuals are closeted and ridiculed. Ellen and the other characters accidentally enter a straight bar and then proceed to crack each other up by making fun of how straight people dance.

** In one episode Jack has a panic attack when he becomes slightly aroused by a female stripper's lap dance. He learns the stripper is trans and he takes comfort in the [[UnfortunateImplication]] that she's not a "real woman".

** Due to the limited amount of food that can be produced on clouds, the Grand Pegasus Enclave tacitly encourages homosexuality to keep the population numbers down.

* The 1992 short film ''Gayniggers from Outer Space'' shows space aliens arriving on Earth and "liberating" men by [[{{Gendercide}} exterminating women]] to create a [[OneGenderRace homosexual utopia]] led by a Gay Ambassador.

* The film ''[[http://www.loveisallyouneedthemovie.com/about.php Love Is All You Need]]'' shows an alternate universe in which [[PersecutionFlip homosexuality is the norm and heterosexuality is taboo.]]

* The surviving veterans of Joe Haldeman's ''Literature/TheForeverWar'' find themselves in a society where everyone is both gay and [[InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace a uniform shade of light brown]]. This began as a government policy of encouraging homosexuality as a method of limiting population growth, and became the standard once humanity began reproducing exclusively via {{Uterine Replicator}}s. One female character at this point even mentions thinking about men's genitals in contact with her makes her mildly disgusted. They offer to switch the main character's orientation through a minor surgery, but he declines, knowing that [[IncompatibleOrientation his orientation is incompatible with everyone]] which forces him to live in abstinence. The soldiers under his command take to nicknaming him "the old queer."

* In the ''Series/{{Ellen}}'' episode "It's a Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay World!", Spence gets knocked out and [[DreamLand dreams]] he lives in a world where homosexuality is the norm and heterosexuals are closeted and ridiculed. Ellen and the other characters accidentally enter a straight bar and then proceed to crack each other up by making fun of how straight people dance.

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 [[SturgeonsLaw most]] slash is about as realistic about same-sex 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 authors pairing up the male characters who are perceived to be more interesting than the [[SatelliteLoveInterest female]] [[StrangledByTheRedString 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.

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 [[TitleDrop Het Is Ew]] 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).

It's worth noting that this is a fan-reaction Trope, dealing with the preference of a number of slash and yaoi fans to read about only homosexual relationships. It's not about in-universe anti-heterosexual feelings expressed within a work of fiction.

'''InUniverse examples only please, and remember, this is about a specific attitude towards heterosexuality, not just homosexual pairings'''.

* Played for laughs in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': when they learn that Aqualad and Terra are dating, the Titans have their reasons why they shouldn't be dating, with Cyborg's reason in particular being this trope.

'''Cyborg:''' He's a boy, she's a girl.\\

'''Robin:''' Yeah, [[MakingASplash he's about water]], [[DishingOutDirt she's about rock]].\\

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 [[SturgeonsLaw most]] slash is about as realistic about same-sex 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.

* Due to the limited amount of food that can be produced on clouds, the Grand Pegasus Enclave in ''FanFic/FalloutEquestria'' tacitly encourages homosexuality to keep the population numbers down.
** In the spin-off ''FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'' two gay characters (male and female) treat a joking suggestion for them to have sex with utter disgust. A while later they both get drunk...
* FanFic/ABriefHistoryOfEquestria: Sullamander, head of the Pegasi armies, who it is implied had something going on with her S.O. when she was a filly. Twilight Sparkle insists, and repeatedly at that, that this is merely the viewpoint of easily duped scholars who clearly cannot bother doing their research.
** To clarify, she attempted to pass a ludicrous law that would have severely penalized heterosexual liaisons and the potential offspring. Fortunately she rescinded it when informed that passing such a law would constitute high treason against the Pegasus Junta, punishable by summary execution. (Only heterosexual intercourse produce offspring, and no offspring would mean no future generations of pegasi, so the law would have resulted in their race going extinct.)

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-->''Father'': YOU GAY BASTARD! No gay son of mine is a "not-gay!" You better get gay or I'll make you gay!
* Brian Kinney seems to have this attitude in the US version of ''Series/QueerAsFolk''.
** Though it's more that he has a dislike/distrust for heterosexuals because he thinks they are all homophobic (either openly or secretly).

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* Tom Tomorrow's strip ''ComicStrip/ThisModernWorld'' 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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* A card from TabletopGame/TwilightSparklesSecretShipficFolder has this to say:
-->"I don't know, I just think het couples are boring..." --Twilight's Secret Diary, Volume XIX
** For bonus points, the couple depicted is Chrysalis and Discord, both villains Twilight dislikes.

* Summer from ''Moon Over June'' finds it repulsive that anyone would ever engage in heterosexual sex; however this is mostly because she is a raging misandrist who finds gay male porn almost as disgusting.
** Hatsuki is a straighter example (no pun intended), having a large collection of gay male porn and a strictly lesbian love life.
*** She doesn't seem particularly grossed out by het sex, it just isn't her thing. At one point we see her working a phone sex line for some extra cash and not being unduly put off by a male customer.
* Almost the entire cast of ''Webcomic/{{Amazoness}}''.

-->'''Zii''': ''*After flicking some soda into Gary's face*'' Now imagine that but warmer, sticky, and stinging your eye.

'''Homer:''' (''mincing around'') Ohooo, look at me, I'm so straight and normal!

* 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.

See also {{Het}}. Not at all related to [[BilingualBonus finding the Dutch ungendered equivalent of "the" ugly]] or [[BilingualBonus disparaging the Russian word for 'No'.]][[note]] [[NightmareFuel/{{Vinesauce}} Unmasked]] [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat Cats]] [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} and]] [[NightmareFuel/{{GiivaSunner}} Harlequin]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin-type_ichthyosis Babies]] notwithstanding.[[/note]] Pre-pubescent boys may feel GirlsHaveCooties, but that usually changes when they're older.

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings''. At one point, Commander hosts a barbecue 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 Film/MadMax makes a homophobic comment the others act like a lack of same-sex attraction is "unnatural" and say things like "maybe he just hasn't found the right guy yet."

For fanfic writers who are not interested in the extremist hate invested in DieForOurShip, they instead often Ship the person [[FagHag "in the way"]] with a different person in the cast who is the same sex as them; i.e., if they Ship Bob and Dave, but Alice is Bob's {{Canon}} girlfriend, they write fics about Alice realizing she actually loved her best friend Carol all along, rather than about Alice dying in a house fire. This isn't universally true, but it's not uncommon, either. Basically, when these fans write FanFic, EveryoneIsGay.

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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 with prominent female leads like ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' or Series/OnceUponATime)[[/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 being a factor]].

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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 [[{{TitleDrop}}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).

** PlayedWith in "South Park is Gay," when the metrosexual craze hits South Park and all the boys and men except Kyle begin dressing and acting in a stereotypically CampGay manner, without being actually gay. Kyle is mercilessly teased by all his friends for not acting metrosexual, and "straight" replaces "gay" as the go-to schoolyard insult.

Some people are fans of {{Slash| Fic}} -- the {{Shipping}} of two same-sex characters from a fandom together. Some people take this a little further though; they don't just like Slash but also dislike the idea of {{Shipping}} two opposite sex people together, even if those doing the shipping are themselves straight.

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 with prominent female leads like ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' or Series/OnceUponATime)[[/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]].