Why this word is great
METRONORMATIVITY — [Noun] The normative assumption that authentic queer identity and liberation are contingent upon migration from rural or provincial areas to major metropolitan centers. From the prefix metro- (from Greek mētēr, "mother," used in English to denote a major city or metropolis) + normativity (from Latin norma, "rule, pattern," + -ivus, "tending to," forming a noun meaning the quality of conforming to a norm). Unlike homonormativity, which critiques assimilation into mainstream heteronormative institutions, or cosmopolitanism, which celebrates a placeless, worldly identity, metronormativity is a specifically spatial script, a prescriptive geography of the self. It is the ache in a dusty roadside bar where the only queer literature is a faded, out-of-town flyer; the hollow finality of a Greyhound bus pulling away from a town whose name becomes a secret; and the weary, unspoken agreement in a city gay bar that everyone’s past is a place they had to leave. It maps a single, linear pilgrimage onto the labyrinth of becoming, mistaking geography for destiny and subtly exiling those who find their truth in the very soil from which they were told to flee.