when an english keyboard user tries to say "no" in russian. The sound it makes is ñet
Russian speaker: asks a question in russian
English speaker: het
wasting too much of your life trying to force heterosexuality only to accept yourself for who you are and embrace your sexuality in the end.
"I spent the first 20 years of my life suffering from het-lag but now I'm free"
Het-lag affects 1 out of 30 adults under the age of 35 in the US due to fear of being accepted.
The period of time before a queer person realises they're queer. Suffering from compulsory heterosexuality is a form of het lag.
I didn't realise I was gay until high school, I had such het lag
The act of historians intentionally reframing historically queer relationships as platonic friendships in order to 'wash' queer identity from history.
"I was shocked to learn that the two English artist bros who lived together for 50 years as confirmed bachelors, who never married, who shared a bed because their bromance was so strong, who kept up daily written correspondence their entire lives turned out to just be roommates! Thanks, Het-Washing for sanitizing my view of history!
See also: "Oh My God They Were Roommates Vine"
also known as Homo-Vision, Heterosexuality Blindness, Every-Character-Is-Gay Syndrome, or HeteroBlind.
where one (usually a teenager doing harmless headcanons) thinks literally every character is gay. it does no harm to literally anyone aside from heteronormative people who get mad at lgbtq+ teens for headcanoning characters.
Tldr; "no character is heterosexual if i get ahold of them"
Rando 1: OMG literally not everyone is gay in media youre fucking delusional.
Someone doing harmless activities: sorry bru im Het-Blind...
het cet·er·a
/het ˈsedərə/
adverb: hetcetera
1. used at the end of a list to indicate that further, heterosexual shenanigans are included.
"They have been busy with the gender reveal party, live laugh loving, het cetera."