The Paradigm of Compulsory Heterosexuality

Butler: compulsory heterosexuality affirms the idea of sex differences pertaining to anatomical differences between men and women as though these things are natural. He says that this has happened in an effort to maintain what Butler calls the matrix of coherent gender norms or the matrix of intelligibility. The self is so inextricably linked with what it means to be gendered, whereas self is reserved then for Cartesian male classic liberal rationalsubjects.