Anonymous #1 1w

It’s about this young girl that goes through this selection process (I forgot what the setting is) with a prince. She doesn’t initially want to go through with the process (partly because she already has a bf and also because she hates the system) but she ends up falling for the prince as well and it becomes a kind of love triangle for a minute. But throughout the whole selection process she also has trouble getting along with the other girls, that are there to be selected for the prince, and

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Anonymous #2 1w

What does heteronormative mean exactly?

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Anonymous OP 1w

Heteronormativity is the social expectation of heterosexuality. A legal or “moral” enforcement of heterosexuality for everyone within that society. The expectation that the prince must want the pretty girls who are selected to compete for him.

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Anonymous #2 1w

Ohhhh ok thanks for explaining it! I can definitely see how it may come across that way, but generally (in the book’s time period) she would not have been seen as one of the “pretty” or even attractive type of girl, which is also why she didn’t get along so well with the queen, king, or other women. I seen it as the prince going against every norm and expectation at that time period.

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Anonymous OP 1w

I guess that makes sense? Not adhering to beauty standards still doesn’t make it any less heteronormative tho. Anyways at least the Selection series isn’t quite as bad as that extremely heteronormative Matched by Allie Condie. That one was wild. “Every boy is paired with every girl” okay pal that’s a dystopian nightmare for every queer person ever

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Anonymous #2 1w

Too woke

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