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- noun The act or process of
paternalizing .
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Examples
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Feminists will generally claim that two drunken people having sex is rape, an argument hard to make without paternalization.
Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009
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Feminists will generally claim that two drunken people having sex is rape, an argument hard to make without paternalization.
Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009
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Attorney Louis Solomon, who represented PepsiCo in the Aquafina suit, says food litigation is part of a larger "paternalization of society," adding that such litigation "in effect, says the masses aren't intelligent enough to understand what they are buying."
Legal Food Fights Put Manufacturers on Defensive Over Labels, Marketing 2009
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