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- verb sociology To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much role another party, often a spouse, has in some task; for example, to limit how much one's husband can raise one's children
- verb To control or limit
access to something - noun
Gatekeeper .
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Examples
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Instead it is always women, as girls who are constantly exhorted to gatekeep supposedly uncontrollable male sexuality.
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Instead it is always women, as girls who are constantly exhorted to gatekeep supposedly uncontrollable male sexuality.
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That is, unless the so-called "majors" decide to gatekeep as opposed to go with the flow.
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Why should a few entities monopolize standardized testing and gatekeep at the door of academia when any old test will do?
"Is it possible to prepare for Intelligence tests?" Ann Althouse 2007
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As the Cybils grow, it will become harder to resist the impulse to gatekeep, to weed out people and not just books, to trim volunteers based on a shifting list of acceptable credentials.
My Newbery Half a' Year fusenumber8 2007
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Why is it more important for you to allow Robert under your radar just long enough for him to gatekeep?
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“In effect, they gatekeep who can and who cannot do research on TM,” Canter says.
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The solution to this, however, would be to employ gatekeepers of the content, "and the more you gatekeep, the more you're back to the system we have now."
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As it turned out, Australia's Human Rights Commission has been used to gatekeep free speech in Australia - not defend it.
newmatilda.com - Comments jewboy 2009
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Of course there will always be women who see it as their role and ‘gatekeep’–just as there will always be men who think it’s *their* job to be breadwinner and refuse to cooperate with their wife working outside the home.
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“Gaslight” has become the trendy synonym for lying — particularly a strain of lying where someone denies an obvious truth — and “gatekeep” has become interchangeable with discrimination.
Girlboss ended not with a bang, but a meme Alex Abad-Santos 2021
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