Straightsplain

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There are several different degrees of straightsplaining. That word, inspired by the increasingly common "mansplaining," describes the practice of straight people explaining how gay people are, or what gay people do, or how gay people do what they do, or why.

Source: wiktionary

What both Longhurst and Hartley-Brewer failed to notice was that, by trying to universalise the incident as an attack on, as they said, “the freedom of all people”, they were attempting to both whitewash and "straight-splain" Orlando.

Source: wiktionary

And now, the plebiscite is dead. And hopefully so is the straightsplaining.

Source: wiktionary

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