The term has evidently been extremely useful for many young women and gender-variant people in figuring out their identities and the validity of their attraction to men. It also gets at how relationships between women are so undervalued and seen as so much less real and significant as relationships with men,” says author and scholar Meg-John Barker.
“I think that 'comphet' is helpful because it really gets at the feeling of just how compulsory heterosexuality feels to so many people: all of the cultural, emotional, and material forces pushing us in that heterosexual direction.
