Heteronormativity, Cell Phone Style

Sociological Images has a post up featuring this cell phone for children which has big buttons representing parental speed dials. Assuming, of course, that all children not only have two parents, but that they’re of opposite sexes as well. Heteronormativity is everywhere, but it’s the everyday small things that can be most insidious.

As Lisa so aptly writes: “That this is ‘normal’ will be reflected back at that child again and again, whether or not it reflects their reality.”