infantilize

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But we tend, as a culture, to infantilize people with disabilities.

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  1. transitive verb To reduce to an infantile state or condition: "It creates a crisis that infantilizes them—causes grown men to squabble like kids about trivial things” (New Yorker).
  2. transitive verb To treat or condescend to as if still a young child: "The Victorian physician infantilized his patient” (Judith Moore).

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  • Let's see how many ways we can depersonalize, dehumanize, patronize, paternalize, infantilize and deminunize women in the name of empowerment and do-goodism. —  The Daily Bastardette
  • Weitz is "helping the industry further infantilize film culture," argues —  GreenCine Daily
  • It used to be that you could say one of the things about film is the gigantism of the images, which dwarf you, which infantilize you, which make you speechless. —  GreenCine Daily
  • It makes absolutely no sense, and it is shameful that my generation, which won the right to vote at age 18, continues to infantilize people who are allowed to make life-and-death decisions on every issue, save one. —  GOPUSA
  • We all know that socialism infantilizes, but it's not supposed to infantilize the people in charge of it. —  Latest Articles
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