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- verb Present participle of
genderize .
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Examples
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For centuries, some languages have featured the genderizing of practically every object — all that linguistic effort ensconced in the poetic and/or the sexist.
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There ought to be no ego, no genderizing and no racializing.
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I think Mr. Pizzello's de-genderizing the awards suggestion is a great idea.
"If you're going to de-sex the awards into subdivisions of Best Actor — if you're all actors, and the gender doesn't matter..." Ann Althouse 2008
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But readers had plenty of suggestions, ranging from the eminently practical (posting signs at the first tee suggesting which tees were appropriate for which handicap levels) to the European (putting out only one set of playable men's tees each day, as many courses in Scotland do) to de-genderizing tees by eliminating red markers, the customary color for women's tees.
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But readers had plenty of suggestions, ranging from the eminently practical (posting signs at the first tee suggesting which tees were appropriate for which handicap levels) to the European (putting out only one set of playable men's tees each day, as many courses in Scotland do) to de-genderizing tees by eliminating red markers, the customary color for women's tees.
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Now, now, before you start thinking I'm crazy, I can assure you there's a very valid reason for naming and genderizing my PS2 (and, for that matter, my computer); however, that information is classified.
bard Diary Entry bard 2002
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Crooker: Yeah, the genderizing -- we've thrown out so many words, like, "it's a feminine move," and we're like, "Wow, that's a horrible concept."
Joystiq 2010
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So it’s an outrage that Richard doesn’t throw in examples of sexually duplicitous men, and when its pointed out that he does, you start channeling John Edwards to figure out my next response, which you then presumptively find outrageous because he used gender-neutral language instead of genderizing the language to ignore the experience of the small, but real, group of men who get spousally abused.
Boyfriend Gets Life Sentence Under “Fetal Protection” Law 2005
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