Heteronormative vampires

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Scratching your head at the first word in the thread title? If you have seen "Twilight" and it's sequels, you should know what it means.

Roger Ebert's article sheds more light on this -

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011..._vampires.html

The observation is made that Stephanie Meyer's best-selling series of novels is profoundly heteronormative.

Her heroine, Bella Swan, holds to a conventional belief in chastity before marriage, and when she finally weds Edward Cullen in the fourth film of the series, she gets pregnant on her wedding night and produces a child with alarming promptness.

The word, I learn, was coined in 1991. It summarizes a world view that creates a climate hostile to non-traditional sexuality.

I love this line:

This is one marriage in which the wisdom of Dr. Spock is not going to be of much use.