Although the world hetero is nowadays predominantly related to one’s sexuality due to the immense presence of sex and gender in the public discourse, in fact, means different. Therefore, hetero criticism is a term that denotes the criticism directed at someone who is different (hetero-) from the one who is making the criticism.
Heterocriticism is the opposite of self-criticism (a.k.a auto criticism; or criticism)
It is of crucial importance to understand that hetero criticism is not a criticism directed at heterosexual people. The term has nothing to do with people’s sexuality. The only reason that one might instantly connect the terms is that contemporary public discourse is immensely focused on people’s sex and sexual preferences as if it means something
Charles Peirce defines normative sciences [1] as philosophical disciplines dealing with the delivering of a general theory of conscious control of actions, which includes even the more refined forms of criticism, revision, and governance.
Peirce believed that if governance has to be fully conscious, the ideal ought to be a habit of the feelings that increase under the influence of the course of both auto criticism and heterocriticism
[1] A science that tests or evaluates and not merely describes or generalizes facts specifically: the group comprising logic, ethics, and aesthetics.
