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The latter kind is often a more or less [[Noble Bigot|sympathetic]] [[Anti-Villain]] or [[Anti-Hero]], maybe even [[Troubled Sympathetic Bigot|a victim of his own prejudice]]. Might [[Played for Laughs|perceive]] all homosexuals and kinky people as parts of [[Everyone Is Satan in Hell]], or passionately feel that every woman ought to be a [[Housewife]]. If a [[Heteronormative Crusader]] of this particular kind is female, she's very likely to also be a [[Stepford Smiler]]. If religious, the character is likely to be sufficiently [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] to believe himself to be a [[Soulsaving Crusader]]. In certain works, the character might even be right.

 

* Condemn intersexuals and transsexuals for not being "real" men/women or for "practicing abhorrent behavior."

* Condemn male homosexuals and bisexuals for being attracted to the "wrong" gender. Females are either condemned in the same way, or claimed to [[Reality Is Unrealistic|not really exist]].

This trope is practically absent in [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] (as their absence in this page's examples demonstrates), where the cultural priorities are fundamentally different -- a person's sexual orientation and its perceived rightness is rendered almost completely moot by the more commanding question of [[Confucius (Creator)|filial piety and societal expectations]]. As such, the depiction of various sexual orientations has less stigma and more acceptance as simple [[Truth in Television]], because ultimately love and chemistry do not ''necessarily'' have anything to do with a socially-acceptable traditional Japanese marriage.

 

 

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== Literature ==

* Very self-consciously averted in ''[[The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster]]'', the chapter on pirates and wenches. This main text of chapter takes for granted that Pirates (the chosen people!) are male and heterosexual. However, little footnotes exclaim that women can be pirates too and that same-sex relationships are entirely okay in His eyes.

** Turns out that this story was false from start to finish later on in the book, however. Atlantis wasn't a paradise, and the Illuminati at the time wasn't pure evil - {{spoiler|in fact it and the Discordianism were essentially the same for a quite long time.}} There are plenty of conservative religious organizations with amusingly acronymic names in the book however, mainly playing the role of a [[Butt Monkey]], or underlying reason for the protagonists' embrace of the counterculture in their backstories.

* ''[[The Turner Diaries (Literature)|The Turner Diaries]]'' use public acceptance of fetishism, sadomasochism and homosexuality as a example of why society is decadent and has to be destroyed.

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