It also trivializes women's need for autonomy, especially black women's.
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We don't need sensationalized programming that embarrassingly trivializes mankind's beginnings.
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The location trivializes anything you have to say on stage.
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But Miss Manners disagrees that your choice trivializes their necessity.
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Today, the emergency state [in France], it almost trivializes the attack.
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Consequently, it devalues and trivializes feminine power in its own right.
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"The danger is that it actually trivializes the threat," he said.
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It trivializes the values the military spends so much time fostering.
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Elsewhere The Middle East isn't the only place where Trump trivializes democracy.
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The politics of pettiness trivializes even the most serious social and political matters.
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At worst, it trivializes the serious issues that the show tries to champion.
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Again he trivializes the most acute matters facing our communities in the Bronx.
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We'd listened to survivors who say the term "revenge porn" trivializes their experiences.
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Your incessant ego-fueled whining trivializes antisemitism at a time when it is resurgent.
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But the "national" debate presents every issue as a simplistic duality, which trivializes everything.
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Many professors subscribe to the argument that quantifying skills "trivializes" the transmission of knowledge.
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This trivializes the argument that the future will be even better than the present.
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" It is salacious and trivializes the abuse, dismissing it as "just a bit of fun.
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This argument trivializes the deaths of the three young mothers and six of their children.
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" (March 18), Andrew Sullivan trivializes the impeachment and trial of President Andrew Johnson, calling it "preposterous.
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In the deepest sense, this type of media coverage trivializes politics and is undermining American democracy.
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The song both trivializes Cary's sexuality and hopes to enrage its anti-gay haters in an intentional way.
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To call porn a public health crisis is a category error that trivializes truly imminent threats to Americans' health.
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There is no good faith discussion to be had with someone who trivializes the murders of a marginalized community.
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But it's not because the game trivializes the horrors of World War II or because it grossly celebrates violence.
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It's not just crude and demeaning, it also trivializes a serious and complicated fight for gender equality and representation.
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" This trivializes the formal and technical concerns of the artist, Smith writes, "the unique problem each art work poses.
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The implication here is that laughter trivializes or softens things that need to be confronted and sometimes that's the case.
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It also trivializes the tireless work Black Lives Matter activists have done to fight racism and make our country safer.
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I don't like it when headlines read 'Careful, Bro, She'll Write a Song About You,' because it trivializes my work.
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Bill Haslam said the bill "trivializes the Bible, which I believe is a sacred text," according to The Associated Press.
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" She argued that this speech-related guidance "trivializes actual harassment," and "teaches students the wrong lessons about freedom of speech.
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But to do what Karena Virginia did trivializes other alleged episodes where the guy had real sway over the women's lives.
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It's a messed-up genre that romanticizes and trivializes some of life's most gruesome realities, exploiting our deepest traumas and fears.
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It recognizes that I identify with aspects of femininity but don't identify with the heteronormative system that trivializes and demonizes them.
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" The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children criticized the change, saying in a statement that the move "further trivializes abortion.
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Now I think that laissez-faire attitude trivializes the experiences of young adulthood and condescends to the people going through them.
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Eleanor Cayre, an art adviser and collector, buys and sells quite a lot of art, but insists that money trivializes it.
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Still, we'd be remiss not to mention that — as great as it is — this sign also kind of trivializes a serious problem.
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But that's a strike against, not for, the campus courts: The expanding definition of sexual assault criminalizes bad sex and trivializes rape.
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" Hawkins continued, "This show glamorizes sexual abuse and trivializes the experience of countless underage women and men who have suffered through sex trafficking.
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Yet neither artist romanticizes or trivializes our planet's climate emergency; their uses of digital screens and virtual spaces are not grandiose or slick.
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" Trump's campaign quickly put out a statement denying the reports, calling the entire article "a completely false, coordinated character assassination" that "trivializes sexual assault.
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They are campaigning to change a 100-year-old mentality that they say trivializes the single most common cause of traffic incidents: human error.
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Davis Houck, a professor of civil-rights history and rhetoric at Florida State University, told Business Insider the comparison "trivializes the history" behind lynching.
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Theodor Adorno said, "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric": any attempt to aestheticize the camps, to redeem the irredeemable, only trivializes the events.
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Not only is it a played-out costume idea, but donning this kind of outfit trivializes the sacred practices of an entire group of people.
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It trivializes the voting preferences of a powerful group of voters: young voters — and particularly young women — while at the same time ignoring gay women.
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His name, like many of his peers, perfectly trivializes computer jargon, adding humorous context to the sometimes-modulated voice he sings with in his music.
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Framing it this way—as a fundamentally ideological debate, rather than one with tangible consequences—trivializes the real and pressing danger of restricting abortion access.
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But because that incident is more spoken about than actually depicted in the movie, critics say it softens or even trivializes the subject of race.
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"Don Quixote" is a flashy circus romp: Though Mr. McKenzie's production is similar to most others, this is a ballet that trivializes any notion of classicism.
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"To try to explain that, when you're in front of a room and everyone is screaming and yelling, makes no sense, and really trivializes democracy," King said.
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Dating is hard, but it won't get easier by putting a Band-Aid over bad behavior and calling it something that trivializes the actions and feelings involved.
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To lump a lousy romantic encounter in with the same movement that brought down men who abused their power "trivializes what #MeToo first stood for," she said.
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Lawyers claimed the novel "trivializes the name, personality and reputation of the late professor," according to The Guardian, though the two parties later reportedly settled without a lawsuit.
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" Another writer, Demetria Irwin, pointed out in a piece for Blavity that the hat trivializes Tubman and all that she stood for: "Tubman was a true freedom fighter.
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"Failing to make distinctions between real instances of harassment and satirical playacting trivializes the pain and anguish of so many women who are actually being harassed," she said.
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The term has been used by feminists since the '70s, when it was coined to describe a culture that normalizes and trivializes rape and sexual assault — our culture.
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Using gaydar as a way to talk innocuously or jokingly about stereotyping -- "Oh, that guy sets off my gaydar" -- trivializes stereotyping and makes it seem like no big deal.
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Emerging from a pattern of tolerated hate speech, it serves as a reminder that Americans must address the increasingly permissive environment that trivializes anti-Semitism in the United States.
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"Suggesting the admitted conduct of Senator Al Franken and the alleged conduct of Judge Roy Moore are on the same level trivializes the serious subject at hand," O'Neill wrote.
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The feminist who defends Trump and the woman is married to a Black man who trivializes racism pose the exact same threat to equality, even if they are packaged differently.
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Much like allowing Sean Spicer a lighthearted appearance at the Emmys, though, building yourself a cardboard podium and being Spicer for Halloween trivializes the damage he did while in office.
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But to do so, I suspect, trivializes the truth that wars, as Thucydides saw, are ultimately fought over real issues that men have been unable to resolve by other means.
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The myth that trivializes this complex process began with Paul Broca, a 19th-century French physician who studied the human brain to understand what made us different from other animals.
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The petition claims the most recent Harvard Lampoon issue "also trivializes suicide, 9/11, and school shootings," and that staff undergo extreme hazing and use racist, sexist, and anti-gay slurs.
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Equating a hand on your knee with a grope up your skirt, a violent assault or sexual demands by your employer trivializes trauma and diminishes women, threatening the drive for equality.
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And now that these groups are taking their grievances offline and onto the mainstream streets of Berkeley, dismissing their activities as simply IRL stagings of Twitter fights trivializes what's really going on.
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It shows not only a lack of understanding about the character, it trivializes the importance of the Holocaust and the murders of millions of people and it's impact on early comic creators.
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" Some fretted about its potential to sprawl: In January, Bari Weiss wrote that a story about Aziz Ansari's behavior in his personal life, not his workplace, "trivializes what #MeToo first stood for.
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The criticism that Eva Stories trivializes the real horrors of the Holocaust was the same argument used to oppose the reading of The Diary of Anne Frank is some school districts in America.
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"As much as we are all infuriated by the governor's statements, equating his language to the systemic terrorism and murder Grand Wizards inflicted upon African Americans (and Catholics) trivializes the KKK," Strimling said.
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Calling Trump a "jerk," as Pelosi did, only "trivializes the impact of his bigoted policies on Jews, Latinos, African Americans, women and the LGBT community," Green said in a statement earlier this month.
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Stopping an ad campaign that trivializes death while thousands of people are publicly grieving is obviously a good choice, but hijacking grief to sell nuts was a disturbing idea in the first place.
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This trivializes breast cancer and limits our ability to comprehend what it's really like to face the disease, live with medical uncertainty, and accept the difficult realities of risk, recurrence, treatment, and even death.
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"We are opposed to this event, which trivializes the slaughter of animals for human usage, and condemns a sentient being to death in the pursuit of artistic endeavors," the protestors write in their Change.
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To reach back decades in an attempt to smear Mr. Trump trivializes sexual assault, and it sets a new low for where the media is willing to go in its efforts to determine this election.
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There's a longstanding debate over whether red carpets are sexist, because they increase the objectification of actresses, or whether a disdain for red carpets is sexist, because it trivializes fashion and the interests of women.
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But for others, West calling bipolar disorder a superpower is akin to glamorizing the illness, and his album art, which reads, "I hate being bipolar it's awesome," trivializes what people who have bipolar disorder go through.
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The "trying to be hip" strategy both reinforces the idea that Clinton is a pandering robot and trivializes young voters—as if millennials won't be able to digest their politics unless it is sugarcoated with emojis.
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But opponents say the measure trivializes the Bible by placing it alongside other Tennessee symbols like the smallmouth bass, the state sport fish; the cave salamander, the state amphibian; and the honeybee, the state agricultural insect.
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"Con Ed has accepted responsibility for power-related delays, which everyone agrees is a driver of subway performance problems, and debating the underlying numbers only trivializes the need to get this critical work done," he said.
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""There's nothing mild about a brain injury," Michael Kaplen, a brain-injury lawyer and a lecturer at The George Washington University Law School, told Insider recently, explaining that the term "trivializes a very serious and significant injury.
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While Washington politics trivializes what goes on in communities like South Bend, South Bend residents who now have better jobs, rising income, and new life in their city don't think their lives are a Washington politician's punchline.
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And lumping him in with the same movement that brought down men who ran movie studios and forced themselves on actresses, or the factory-floor supervisors who demanded sex from female workers, trivializes what #MeToo first stood for.
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On its face, the medium through which her story is told trivializes its meaning, which has driven the criticism around the work, but to me it is the familiarity and accessibility of the platform that makes it so brilliant.
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When President-elect Trump trivializes the experience of those who died in, or survived, the Holocaust -- and when he has denigrated other groups of people who have endured oppression -- is he acting out of genuine ignorance or politically motivated hate?
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At a time when there's a growing focus on the pure and the natural, lots of people feel doctors aren't taking their concerns about side effects seriously — the medical profession trivializes their problems or tries to sweep them under the rug.
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His inability tonight to explain how many "trillions" of dollars it will take to enact his policies and his refusal to back down from praising Fidel Castro will only exacerbate a concern that he fundamentally misunderstands and trivializes the issue.
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In saying she wishes someone "slightly browner" would write this story, Cummins not only trivializes the shades of our identities and experiences, but also attempts to recuse herself from fault in posturing from a perspective that is not her own.
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We have a sitting president who trivializes the prospects of nuclear war, issues direct and veiled threats to world leaders and political opponents alike, and then plays the victim card while attempting to demonize and intimidate critics like Maxine Waters.
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This arrangement is less stressful to the objects, but it trivializes them by giving them the appearance of goods in a bazaar, rather than artworks in an elite gallery — a diminution starkly emphasized in relation to display of the Boetti works.
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"While Washington politics trivializes what goes on in communities like South Bend, South Bend residents who now have better jobs, rising income, and new life in their city don't think their lives are a Washington politician's punchline," Buttigieg spokesman Chris Meagher responded.
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As a much-noted New York Times Magazine article by Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal last fall detailed, and as McDonell confirms, part of the callousness of American policy has been that it trivializes the scope of the damage after the fact.
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The Women Not Objects campaign, which was founded to combat the objectification of women in mainstream media, couldn't have chosen a more important target for change: advertising that depicts and trivializes violence against women and the real ways they are harmed and objectified every day.
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But insight into Teresa's life, let alone the other side of the legal battle that prosecutors have since claimed was missing from Part One, is what feels troubling in a climate that often trivializes young women's trauma to take a grittier onscreen view of the male psyche.
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"The one thing I've not gotten my head around is the reaction of people I don't even know," he said of Drynuary's detractors, of whom there have been many, from those who think it trivializes the problem of binge drinking to those who just think it's stupid.
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In the past, he's been quoted as calling Senator Cory Booker a "Sambo"; he's called himself Islamophobic; he's said that "buying woman parts from a hospital and calling yourself a broad trivializes what it is to be a woman," which is a reprehensible way to talk about trans people.
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And opposition that conflates the risks of conservative policies with those of democratic breakdown — say, by reacting to Betsy DeVos (who embraces vouchers for private schools) and Michael Flynn (who embraces insane conspiracy theories) as equivalent threats — trivializes constitutional concerns and makes it easier to dismiss complaints as losers' sour grapes.
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I encourage everyone to challenge and condemn the immoral and unfeasible ideas that Trump has, such as the proposal to deport 11 million undocumented migrants, but comparing Trump to Hitler is not only inaccurate, ineffective, dishonest, and dangerous, it also trivializes the tragedy of the Holocaust in the name of scoring political points.
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" Fewer quotes from politicians, more quotes from families Here's what The Atlantic's James Fallows wrote when I asked for his impressions: "I think the media have actually been moving into a better approach to this ... I was going to say 'this story,' but that almost trivializes it, since it's so much more than a normal 'story' in the realm of normal politics.
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Whether it's for attention or just the result of a general lack of understanding around how anxiety actually works, the colloquial use of anxiety terminology is a slap in the face to those who are truly suffering, those who wish their feelings were just butterflies—hearing people throw these terms around so casually trivializes the all-encompassing panic they actually feel, making anxiety less likely to be taken seriously by others.
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Every once in a while, tucked into the stream of speedily made garments rushed into stores, designs with shockingly bad taste stand out: a shirt comparing women to dogs at Topman, symbols of the Holocaust on a top at Zara, a slogan that trivializes sexual consent on a piece at Forever 21, or words like "slave" and "slut" used as decorative details on T-shirts at ASOS and Missguided.
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