Question

This is the first title concept of an essay that analyzes Meridel Le Sueur’s novel The Girl as a study of “double-life” and uses Kathleen Gough’s list of eight characteristics of male power as a framework. A term for the imposition of this concept was popularized by Michael Warner, the author of The Trouble with Normal. An essay titled for this type of “mind” ends by arguing that the word “woman” only has meaning within this type of system of thought; that essay is by a thinker who theorized a social contract based on this concept, Monique Wittig (“VIT-ig”). This phenomenon is analyzed as a political institution in an Adrienne (-5[1])Rich essay that calls it “compulsory.” People who exclusively or predominantly display (10[1])this phenomenon are between zero and two on the Kinsey scale. For 10 points, queer theorists often criticize a type of “normativity” named after what sexual orientation? ■END■

ANSWER: heterosexuality [or straightness; accept het or comphet; accept compulsory heterosexuality or “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”; accept heterosexual contract; accept “The Straight Mind”; accept The Invention of Heterosexuality; reject “heteronormativity”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ned TagtmeierChicago AGeorgia Tech A108-5
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AChicago A12010

Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y1100%0%100%120.00