boxiness

English

Etymology

boxy +‎ -ness

Noun

boxiness (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being boxy
    • 1981 August 8, Bob Collins, “The New Normals”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
      Instead of the widely sexual beings we have the potential to be, we've been put (and put ourselves) into increasingly shrinking sexual categories. We are brought up to be "homosexual" or "heterosexual." As homosexuals, many of us become "leather queens," "bottoms" or "tops," "chicken queens," "dinge queens," etc. This boxiness makes us more isolated, seemingly foreign, highly specialized and limited sexual beings.
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