User talk:Austingreitz

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Hello, Austingreitz, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Homonormativity
Hi, Austingreitz. I read your draft improvements to heteronormativity. For your first paragraph, can you tell me why family origin is noted so prominently? I see the source on it but don't have access to the paper so I can't tell. Also, phrases like "The reassertion of homonormativity can be seen in the structure of the family across societies." or "Marriage itself is a function of homonormativity, as marriage in the United States is the same for both different-sex and same-sex couples and always excludes polyamorous relationships" are probably not something an encyclopedia can take a stance on without some qualification. You can see in the current article scholars are identified and their views on the topic attributed to them. Not all of your content needs to be that rigorously qualified in text, but something like "Adoption is another site within the family structure in which homonormativity is reasserted." is a clear statement of fact for which a critical reader might demand some fairly strong evidence. That paragraph doesn't really provide it.

The third paragraph seems to be quite good. I think if you can determine what the focus of the first paragraph should be, what strong evidence exists for the claim in the second (though I would recommend scrapping the second paragraph as it's not as well supported as the rest) and adding your third paragraph into the article right now. Let me know if you need a hand with anything. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:38, 18 April 2016 (UTC)