Fabulous new entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy just dropped! 🐝🐵 🐘🐠Animal Normativity 🦌🐶🦜🐬https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/animal-normativity/ authored by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social
Animal Normativity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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August 24, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Fabulous new entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy just dropped! 🐝🐵 🐘🐠Animal Normativity 🦌🐶🦜🐬https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/animal-normativity/ authored by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social
Do I need to link to papers describing white normativity as a prejudice?
September 22, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Do I need to link to papers describing white normativity as a prejudice?
1) Queerness isn’t defined by oppression. It’s defined by an oppositional relationship with normativity.
Part of sexual normativity involves the assumption that everyone does (and should) experience sexual attraction.
Asexuality challenges this normativity. Ergo, it’s queer.
Part of sexual normativity involves the assumption that everyone does (and should) experience sexual attraction.
Asexuality challenges this normativity. Ergo, it’s queer.
January 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
1) Queerness isn’t defined by oppression. It’s defined by an oppositional relationship with normativity.
Part of sexual normativity involves the assumption that everyone does (and should) experience sexual attraction.
Asexuality challenges this normativity. Ergo, it’s queer.
Part of sexual normativity involves the assumption that everyone does (and should) experience sexual attraction.
Asexuality challenges this normativity. Ergo, it’s queer.
Do bonobos have social norms?
In my new paper, I argue that bonobos exhibit genuine forms of normativity regulated through shared social mechanisms.
Their social life may be far closer to human normativity than we usually assume
critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/cr...
In my new paper, I argue that bonobos exhibit genuine forms of normativity regulated through shared social mechanisms.
Their social life may be far closer to human normativity than we usually assume
critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/cr...
May 9, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Do bonobos have social norms?
In my new paper, I argue that bonobos exhibit genuine forms of normativity regulated through shared social mechanisms.
Their social life may be far closer to human normativity than we usually assume
critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/cr...
In my new paper, I argue that bonobos exhibit genuine forms of normativity regulated through shared social mechanisms.
Their social life may be far closer to human normativity than we usually assume
critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/cr...
Hyper-normativity.
September 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Hyper-normativity.
it's not that "everything is gender", it's "everything is normativity" and fascism is the totalising neurotic instinct where any tiny break with normativity threatens your entire society and most importantly, your role within it
April 7, 2026 at 9:03 AM
it's not that "everything is gender", it's "everything is normativity" and fascism is the totalising neurotic instinct where any tiny break with normativity threatens your entire society and most importantly, your role within it
'penetrative normativity' just made my brain leak out of my ear
September 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
'penetrative normativity' just made my brain leak out of my ear
i'm not convinced cis is even a real thing. i think they just have a fetish for gender normativity
March 29, 2024 at 1:19 PM
i'm not convinced cis is even a real thing. i think they just have a fetish for gender normativity
acab includes whatever this is? diurnal-normativity?
November 26, 2023 at 11:37 PM
acab includes whatever this is? diurnal-normativity?
an upside to leaving teaching is i no longer have the anxiety of a student (or an overly involved parent of a student) discovering i have sex sometimes which doesn't adhere to heterosexist normativity
People on TikTok are now putting their professors pics in the cheater ai thing to see if they are on dating apps going “omg he’s cheating on his wife” girl he’s probably poly like half of academics mind ur business
June 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
an upside to leaving teaching is i no longer have the anxiety of a student (or an overly involved parent of a student) discovering i have sex sometimes which doesn't adhere to heterosexist normativity
REJECT PATRIARCHAL NORMATIVITY OF PENETRATION
SEX IS PERFORMED WITH FEET AND TEETH
SEX IS PERFORMED WITH FEET AND TEETH
October 6, 2023 at 1:41 PM
REJECT PATRIARCHAL NORMATIVITY OF PENETRATION
SEX IS PERFORMED WITH FEET AND TEETH
SEX IS PERFORMED WITH FEET AND TEETH
The gender normativity divide in tabletops pisses me off so much, not just for the normal reasons, but do y’all REALIZE how much cool shit nail artists and miniature painters could learn from each other???
August 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The gender normativity divide in tabletops pisses me off so much, not just for the normal reasons, but do y’all REALIZE how much cool shit nail artists and miniature painters could learn from each other???
White normativity is such a powerful psychological element that a lot of very intelligent white people have convinced themselves that white prejudice against other groups is abnormal and so probably isn’t a flaw in themselves.
September 22, 2026 at 12:53 PM
White normativity is such a powerful psychological element that a lot of very intelligent white people have convinced themselves that white prejudice against other groups is abnormal and so probably isn’t a flaw in themselves.
Excited to reveal the program for the 7th Annual Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop:
normativity.web.unc.edu/program/
normativity.web.unc.edu/program/
Program – Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop
normativity.web.unc.edu
January 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Excited to reveal the program for the 7th Annual Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop:
normativity.web.unc.edu/program/
normativity.web.unc.edu/program/
cis normativity is so deeply rooted that the average cis reaction I've experienced to the medical malpractice unqualified endos regularly put trans women through is support of endos for being "thorough" and "cautious" about something so "potentially dangerous"
March 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
cis normativity is so deeply rooted that the average cis reaction I've experienced to the medical malpractice unqualified endos regularly put trans women through is support of endos for being "thorough" and "cautious" about something so "potentially dangerous"
the "think of the children" shit has literally done nothing but be a conservative talking point to excuse the erasure and sanitization of queer spaces.
especially in non-SEXUAL contexts too, the labeling of bodies outside cishet normativity as "explicit" is DANGEROUS.
especially in non-SEXUAL contexts too, the labeling of bodies outside cishet normativity as "explicit" is DANGEROUS.
April 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the "think of the children" shit has literally done nothing but be a conservative talking point to excuse the erasure and sanitization of queer spaces.
especially in non-SEXUAL contexts too, the labeling of bodies outside cishet normativity as "explicit" is DANGEROUS.
especially in non-SEXUAL contexts too, the labeling of bodies outside cishet normativity as "explicit" is DANGEROUS.
The term 'normativity' is being used to describe bias in action. for example when someone assumes an unlabeled person is white, unless there's some other signifier.
In gender normativity, the assumption might be that they're male.
In gender normativity, the assumption might be that they're male.
September 22, 2026 at 1:20 PM
The term 'normativity' is being used to describe bias in action. for example when someone assumes an unlabeled person is white, unless there's some other signifier.
In gender normativity, the assumption might be that they're male.
In gender normativity, the assumption might be that they're male.
I love Christmas, we celebrate it joyfully in our interfaith family, you are revealing the hell out of your Christian-normativity bias when you insist it’s a celebration that’s totally divorced from Christianity
December 18, 2024 at 7:26 PM
I love Christmas, we celebrate it joyfully in our interfaith family, you are revealing the hell out of your Christian-normativity bias when you insist it’s a celebration that’s totally divorced from Christianity
Extrovert normativity <<<<<<<
“you seem distant from the group”
baby i’m fighting demons rn 😭🥲
baby i’m fighting demons rn 😭🥲
January 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Extrovert normativity <<<<<<<
begging trans women to kill their inner transphobe
begging queers to unlearn cis het normativity
begging everyone to unlearn that sex is penetrative
begging queers to unlearn cis het normativity
begging everyone to unlearn that sex is penetrative
March 30, 2026 at 6:49 AM
begging trans women to kill their inner transphobe
begging queers to unlearn cis het normativity
begging everyone to unlearn that sex is penetrative
begging queers to unlearn cis het normativity
begging everyone to unlearn that sex is penetrative
No 'Suffering Olympics', here btw.
It can be rough for average folk raised within the walls of this normativity, not knowing that there's anything else, and not being able to properly see if there is without risking being cut off from their base.
Aggressively queer safe spaces benefit everyone.
It can be rough for average folk raised within the walls of this normativity, not knowing that there's anything else, and not being able to properly see if there is without risking being cut off from their base.
Aggressively queer safe spaces benefit everyone.
April 11, 2026 at 3:27 PM
No 'Suffering Olympics', here btw.
It can be rough for average folk raised within the walls of this normativity, not knowing that there's anything else, and not being able to properly see if there is without risking being cut off from their base.
Aggressively queer safe spaces benefit everyone.
It can be rough for average folk raised within the walls of this normativity, not knowing that there's anything else, and not being able to properly see if there is without risking being cut off from their base.
Aggressively queer safe spaces benefit everyone.
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Appreciating this contribution from Lia articulating the position that cisgender normativity tries to render inarticulable, invalid or illegal even among the compromises trans people manage to wage with gender's contradictions.
Appreciating this contribution from Lia articulating the position that cisgender normativity tries to render inarticulable, invalid or illegal even among the compromises trans people manage to wage with gender's contradictions.
March 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Appreciating this contribution from Lia articulating the position that cisgender normativity tries to render inarticulable, invalid or illegal even among the compromises trans people manage to wage with gender's contradictions.
Appreciating this contribution from Lia articulating the position that cisgender normativity tries to render inarticulable, invalid or illegal even among the compromises trans people manage to wage with gender's contradictions.
A nice illustration of normativity is when people from southeast England say "I don't think I really have any sort of accent"
Hope that this isn't treated as a political point- it isn't meant to be- but as a northerner it is quite nice to hear a PM speaking in Downing Street with a northern* accent
(*yes there are, of course, many types of accent across northern England)
(*yes there are, of course, many types of accent across northern England)
July 20, 2026 at 12:49 PM
A nice illustration of normativity is when people from southeast England say "I don't think I really have any sort of accent"
As I’ve said op-ed is not my field, but there’s a piece, or a book, to be written about how important a false veneer of normativity is to fascists and aspirational fascists alike — and how attacking this veneer destabilizes their entire game plan, as we are now collectively noting
July 31, 2024 at 3:08 AM
As I’ve said op-ed is not my field, but there’s a piece, or a book, to be written about how important a false veneer of normativity is to fascists and aspirational fascists alike — and how attacking this veneer destabilizes their entire game plan, as we are now collectively noting
That some ethicists argue pubertal pause would make otherwise cisgender adolescents trans is perhaps the most scathing implicit critique of the fragility of cissexual normativity to date.
April 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
That some ethicists argue pubertal pause would make otherwise cisgender adolescents trans is perhaps the most scathing implicit critique of the fragility of cissexual normativity to date.