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Peterson and Parisi in their article “Are Women Human? It’s Not an Academic Question”, explain that some feminist researches stipulate that the universal references of what is considered a human are of androcentric character, considering men as standard. They define Heterosexism as the institutionalization of heterosexuality as only natural way in which people express their sexual and social conducts. Heterosexism was institutionalized by the states, which protect but at the same time violate individual rights within public and private sphere.

Historically, women have been dominated and deprived of their freedom and autonomy and a gender hierarchy have been imposed. Heterosexism promotes binary gender identities and the subordination of women to men’s interests. It also promotes heterosexual relation and the inclusion of women in-group projects, but at the same time, it is oppressive, it privileges men’s interest upon of women’s interests and rejects any other sexual orientation or gender identification. They also explain that when children born they must be bred in an appropriate way, which includes a cultural transmission and socialization of group members. In those process is created a gender/race division remarking the inequality among women and men.

With the transition to western civilization was marked a centralization of political authority, which created new laws and a hierarchical division of labor by gender, age and class. As we take modern state making as our pattern to start, that sketch suggested that women were not included into the definition of individual according to discourse of human rights, also women were not considered as person in their own rights to make decision, but according to heterosexist principles of group reproduction, women are tied to the reproductive role. Any action that moves away from what the heterosexism stands for is considered not normal, even for women to be taken into account should seem as possible to the men who are established status.