History Main / HeteronormativeCrusader

* The Westboro Baptist Church, mentioned above, is infamous for protesting the funerals of everyone from US servicemen to IsaacHayes, all of whom they believe are supporting homosexuality in some way. They also believe pretty much every disaster, man-made and natural, is God punishing homosexuals and those who don't hate them.

->Through this material, today's youth can be stimulated to sexual activities for which he has no legitimate outlet. He is even enticed to enter the world of Homosexuals, Lesbians, Sadists, Masochists, and other sex deviants. The psychiatric terms for these ''unnatural'' sex acts are unknown to most ''decent'' adults in our country. But through these solicitous materials, these abnormalities are corrupting the minds and the hearts of our children. Perversion for profit!

* StationeryVoyagers has a heteronormative premise; but the heroes make it clear that they do not endorse instigation of violence to address the interests of non-hetero/non-BDSM types. [[InvertedTrope By contrast]], the Crooked Rainbow [[CardCarryingVillain openly revel]] in being [[AxCrazy rabid]] homo-non-normatives and terrorizing anyone who interferes with pro-gay political causes. Enough so that the [[GayConservative Closeteers]] team up with religious groups [[{{X-Men}} that mistrust them]] to [[StrawTraitor keep the Voyagers safe]] from Crooked Rainbow riots.

* The main character in ''BoysDontCry'' is a young transgendered man who hangs out with some redneck homophobes who accepts him as one of the guys. He even start dating the sister of one of these new friends. For course, when they "discover" that he's "really" a woman, they consider this relationship to be lesbian. Homophobic hate crimes ensues.

* ''The TurnerDiaries'' uses public acceptance of fetishism, sadomasochism and homosexuality as a example of why society is decadent and has to be destroyed.

** In one episode, a shoe fetishist kills a woman for her boots. Dr Huang insists that fetishism is a harmless sexual variation, and a very tragic story is gradually revealed. [[spoiler:It turns out that the murderer's mother hated her son for being sexually "abnormal". She tried to "cure" his fetishism by beating him in the head with frying pans and other hard objects, and eventually this abuse caused him permanent brain damage that made him unstable enough to kill a woman by mistake.]]

* Parodied in ''TrueBlood'': The intro features the infamous Westbro Baptist Church slogan "God hates fags", modified to "God hates fangs".

* ScarredLands: The LawfulNeutral God Hedrara and LawfulEvil God Chardun are both merciless bastards with harsch and arbitrary laws condemning love, sexuality, and, well positive emotions in general. Hedrara is the one most prone to discriminate against homosexuals and promiscuous people. The laws of Hedrara's holy city Hedrad have the death penalty for homosexual love and heterosexual promiskuity. It even have strict punishments for public hugging. Granted, this city also kill monogamous heterosexuals who enter relationships without getting the blessing of the church first. However, as a monogamous heterosexual, you CAN get the blessing of the church, while homosexuals and promiscuous people can not. Storytellingwise, the blatantly homophobic etc. laws of Hedrad are used to highlight that the God Hedrara is in fact NOT a ''good'' God.

* Spoofed in the Disney version of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Gaston starts out as very heteronormative in many ways, including trying to reduce Belle to a traditional passive female gender role. When he finds out of about her relationship with the Beast, he takes refuge in something that looks like a cocktail of ThoseWackyNazis and HeteronormativeCrusader, mixed together in a shaker built from FantasticRacism.

In fiction, the wars on homosexuality and sadomasochism is more and more often played for laughs or as a way of highlighting [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain how unsympathetic the antagonist is]]. Such a antagonist is likely to either be a StrawHypocrite, who uses a rival's sexuality as an excuse to attack him, or a hypocrite of the SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny kind. The later kind is often a more or less sympathetic {{antivillain}} or {{antihero}}, a victim of his own prejudice. Also likely to [[PlayedForLaughs percieve]] all homosexuals and kinky people as parts of EveryoneIsSatanInHell.

In fiction, the wars on homosexuality and sadomasochism is more and more often played for laughs or as a way of highlighting [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain how unsympathetic the antagonist is]]. Such a antagonist is likely to either be a StrawHypocrite, who uses a rival's sexuality as an excuse to attack him, or a hypocrite of the SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny kind. The later kind is often a more or less sympathetic {{antivillain}} or {{antihero}}, a victim of his own prejudice.

There are two kinds of examples of this trope. The main kind are characters built on/with this trope, with the trope designed to be unsympathetic. The other kind are works that not only take a heteronormative standpoint but brings it to the point of violent propaganda. These works are usually quite old, and HilariousInHindsight. Or created by cults. Please show restraint in adding examples to this propaganda category, only add really [[{{Anvilicious}} clear-cut]] examples. Also, no RealLife examples please.

->Through this material, today's youth can be stimulated to sexual activities for which he has no legitimate outlet. He is even enticed to enter the world of Homosexuals, Lesbians, Sadists, Masochists, and other sex deviants. The psychiatric terms for these ''unnatural'' sex acts are unknown to most ''decent'' adults in our country. But through these solicitous materials, these abnormalities are corrupting the minds and the hearts of our children. Perversion for profit!
-->'''George Putnam''', arguing for censorship in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxEh-F_Cf8 Perversion for profit (1965)]]

Ranging from physical violence to political hate-mongering in their war against sexual minorities, characters cast in the role of HeteronormativeCrusader are a diverse lot. They can be a anything from specialized MoralGuardians or {{Principles Zealot}}s, to any bloodthirsty mob equipped with TorchesAndPitchforks. Sometimes it is ideologues from one of the first two groups who use hate-mongering [[EnemyMine to bring decent people under their influence]] by turning them into the third group.

In fiction, the wars on homosexuality and sadomasochism is more and more often played for laughs or as a way of highlighting [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain how unsympathetic the antagonist is]]. Such a antagonist is likely to either be a StrawHypocrite, who uses a rival's sexuality as an excuse to attack him, or a hypocrite of the SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny kind. The later kind is often a more or less sympathetic AntiVillain or AntiHero, a victim of his own prejudice.

There are two kinds of examples of this trope. The main kind are characters built on/with this trope, with the trope designed to be unsympathetic. The other kind are works that not only take a heteronormative standpoint but brings it to the point of violent propaganda. These works are usually quite old, and HilariousInHindsight. Or created by cults. Please show restraint in adding examples to this propaganda category, only add really [[{{Anvilicious}} clear-cut]] examples. Also, no RealLife examples please.

* In the ''{{Lucifer}}'' comic, one side character starts out as a ArmoredClosetGay nazi who beat an Indian man almost to death for flirting with him. [[spoiler: The man gets disabled for life, but they end up as lovers anyway - once the first guy realized that ThoseWackyNazis wasn't such a good crowd to hang out with after all.]]

* ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' often play with this trope, with detectives reminding themselves and each other that bruises aren't necessarily caused by abuse, they could also be caused by BDSM. In some episodes, the trope is played completely straight.

** In one episode, a shoe fetishist kills a woman for her boots. Dr Huang insists that fetishism is a harmless sexual variation, and a very tragic story is gradually revealed. [[spoiler: It turns out that the murderer's mother hated her son for being sexually "abnormal". She tried to "cure" his fetishism by beating him in the head with frying pans and other hard objects, and eventually this abuse caused him permanent brain damage that made him unstable enough to kill a woman by mistake.]]
** Both played straight and inverted in an episode where Kathy Griffin plays a militant lesbian activist. She's placed under police protection when she seems to be the next target in a string of crimes targetting lesbians. Played straight because [[spoiler: the criminal turns out to be a guy who just really hates lesbians]] and inverted because [[spoiler: the first man the police catch trying to sneak into her home turns out to be her male lover - and she's afraid to exonerate him because of how her lesbian supporters might react if they think she's heterosexual (for the record, the episode is vague as to whether she's bisexual or a lesbian in an IfItsYouItsOkay relationship with a man, but never suggests she's [[NoBisexuals actually straight]])]].

* ScarredLands: The LawfulNeutral God Hedrara and LawfulEvil God Chardun are both merciless bastards with harsch and arbitrary laws condemning love, sexuality, and, well positive emotions in general. Hedrara is the one most prone to discriminate against homosexuals and promiscuous people. The laws of Hedrara's holy city Hedrad have the death penalty for homosexual love and heterosexual promiskuity. It even have strict punishments for public hugging. Granted, this city also kill monogamous heterosexuals who enter relationships without getting the blessing of the church first. However, as a monogamous heterosexual, you CAN get the blessing of the church, while homosexuals and promiscuous people can not. Storytellingwise, the blatantly homophobic et cetera laws of Hedrad are used to highlight that the God Hedrara is in fact NOT a ''good'' God.

-> '''Crowd:''' "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=917Q8dbpRLE We don't like what we don't understand, in fact it scares us, and this monster is mysterious at least]]".

** These were widespread in the 19:th and early 20:th century. They were produced by doctors who witnessed deeply disturbed mental patients masturbating chronically, and mistook cause and effect rather thoroughly.

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** These were widespread in the 19th and early 20th century. They were produced by doctors who witnessed deeply disturbed mental patients masturbating chronically, and mistook cause and effect rather thoroughly.

* [[http://www.neatorama.com/neat/worst-sin.htm This]] [[{{Narm}} highly amusing]] tract on the supposed deadly results of masturbation.

* Parodied in ''[[{{Illuminatus}} The Illuminatus! Triology]]'': One of the [[EpilepticTrees theories]] on why Atlantis was destroyed is that [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness the Illuminati]] hated the civilization's FreeLoveFuture enough to nuke it back to the Stone Age.

* ''The S&M Judge'' is all about this trope. The main character isn't even a sadomasochist himself, it's his wife who is a masochist. But his political enemies finds out, and uses it as a excuse to persecute him - claiming that he has "abused" her.

In fiction, the wars on homosexuality and sadomasochism is more and more often played for laughs or as a way of highlighting [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain how unsympathetic the antagonist is]]. Such a antagonist is likely to either be a StrawHypocrite, who uses a rivals sexuality as an excuse to attack him, or a hypocrite of the SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny kind. The later kind is often a more or less sympathetic AntiVillain or AntiHero, a victim of his own prejudice.

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* The infamous ''Perversion For Profit'' from 1965 (see the page quote) isn't about homosexuality or sadomasochism. It's a general plea for the virtue of censorship and the evils of free speech. However, they assume that the audience has a unhesitating hatred for homosexuals and sadomasochists, and thus mention these minorities several times in order to make the attack on freedom of speech appear more legitimate. With a modern audience, ValuesDissonance may ensue.
* ''The TurnerDiaries'' uses public acceptance of fetishism, sadomasochism and homosexuality as a example of why society is decadent and has to be destroyed.
* ''ChickTracts'': Several tracts are about homosexuals being possessed by demons or generically evil. Sometimes fetish clothes and BDSM tools are used to show just how "evil" the gays are. Heterosexual BDSM doesn't seem to exist in the world of Chick.
* [[http://www.neatorama.com/neat/worst-sin.htm This]] [[{{Narm}} highly amusing]] tract on the supposed deadly results of masturbation.

Ranging from physical violence to political hate-mongering in their war against sexual minorities, characters cast in the role of {{Heteronormative Crusader}} are a diverse lot. They can be a anything from specialized MoralGuardians or {{Principles Zealot}}s, to any bloodthirsty mob equipped with TorchesAndPitchforks. Sometimes it is ideologues from one of the first two groups who use hate-mongering [[EnemyMine to bring decent people under their influence]] by turning them into the third group.

There are two kinds of examples of this trope. The main kind are characters built on/with this trope, with the trope designed to be unsympathetic. The other kind are works that not only take a heteronormative standpoint but brings it to the point of crusading propaganda. These works are usually quite old, and HilariousInHindsight. Or created by cults. Please show restraint in adding examples to this propaganda category, only add really [[{{Anvilicious}} clear-cut]] examples. Also, no RealLife examples please.

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* The infamous ''Perversion For Profit'' from 1965 (see the page quote) isn't about homosexuality or sadomasochism. It's a general plea for the virtue of censorship and the evils of free speech. However, they assume that the audience has a unhesitating hatred for homosexuals and sadomasochists, and thus mention these minorities several times in order to make the attack on freedom of speech appear more legitimate. With a modern audience, ValuesDissonance ensues.

* [[http://www.neatorama.com/neat/worst-sin.htm This]] [[{{Narm}} highly amusing]] tract on the ''eeeeeeeevils'' of masturbation.

* PlayedForLaughs and for FetishFuel in ''SmallFavors'': Only naughty persons are into BDSM, and they deserve to be [[SpankTheCutie severely punished]] for it!