This has hurt so many people of color and has even caused some to lose job opportunities. I think of the character, Molly, from the show Insecure. A black woman working in law and in the beginning of the show, she worked in a space where she was the only black woman in the office. Her hair in the beginning of the season was straight and laid down. After a couple seasons later, now working in a predominantly black law firm, she reclaimed her blackness by ditching the hair and embracing her natural hair. The dominant culture of whiteness reflected onto her, creating a double-consciousness within her. She had to succumb to the standard of white professionalism.

In terms of sexuality, straight experiences lead to the questioning of sex works in different relationships outside the cis-hetero relationship, in a patronizing way. "How do yall do it?" This can also apply to those with disabilities, and that group is sometimes questioned the same exact thing. Just because they are disabled, their experience is so "foreign," because it isn't the "typical" sort of relationship. The cis-het normative experience has become so normalized that the practice of sex is even questioned to "othered" groups.