Abstract
This paper seeks to highlight gender enactment and desire as it relates to Butler's ‘heterosexual matrix’ within a nationally syndicated television show. By focusing on gender performativity – the impression of gender through repetitive stylized manners of interaction grounded in cultural norms – and discourse, this paper scrutinizes heteronormativity in a popular situation-based comedy in the US. Content analysis was utilized as a way of examining how gender transgression and gender performance are linked to (hetero)sexuality, and how they are constructed, in the sitcom Two and a Half Men created by Lee Aronsohn and Chuck Lorre. Two and a Half Men premiered on 22 September 2003 for the United States network, CBS.
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