Why this word is great
HETEROPHOBIA — [Noun] The fear or resentment of what is different, particularly heterosexuals, heterosexuality, or the opposite sex. From hetero- (Greek 'heteros', meaning 'other' or 'different') + -phobia (Greek 'phobos', meaning 'fear'), it is the inverse shadow of intolerance, a recoil from the familiar masquerading as defiance. Unlike 'xenophobia' (which targets foreignness) or 'homophobia' (which fixates on sameness), heterophobia is the peculiar dread of the default—the queasy discomfort at a straight couple’s public affection, the reflexive sneer at traditional gender roles, or the brittle insistence that normativity is inherently oppressive. It is the clenched jaw at a father teaching his son to shave, the eye-roll at a heterosexual love song, the quiet fury at a world that insists on being ordinary—because even rejection, when it hardens into dogma, becomes its own kind of conformity.