Concern about straight women’s well-being, and agreement that straight men would benefit considerably from some basic instruction on how to treat women, is something of a running joke in queer subculture—or, to be more accurate, in dyke subculture. For instance, the Instagram page @hets_explain_yourselves is a digital archive of #hetnonsense that includes in its bio the rhetorical question “Are Hets OK?” Followers of the page can scroll with befuddlement or horror through images of infant clothing proclaiming, “I heart boobs just like daddy,” a beer garden called “Husband Day Care Center,”
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