‘most of the older theories pathologize same-sex attraction’
‘‘It's important that we don't pathologize Aboriginal people,’ she adds.’
‘We need to take psychiatrically labeled people in our communities seriously, not patronize or pathologize them.’
‘They cannot champion gun ownership or housewifery because their theories pathologize those choices.’
‘Mention your magick, and one therapist will be fascinated, and another will pathologize you.’
‘What role do state institutions play in shaping identities and constructing beliefs about deviance that privilege some groups and pathologize others?’
‘They pathologize and depoliticize her actions, reducing her self-protection to an overreaction to a sexual encounter.’
‘Some critics even contend that too many characteristics or quirks are being pathologized - labeled abnormal - to make money.’
‘Yet this pathologizing of elements of human experience begs the question: What makes heavy drug or alcohol use, long-term sadness, or heightened anxiety a disease?’
‘This is pathologizing the trivial and the mundane.’
‘Today's talk of autism is not a new pathologizing of human behavior, just a new perspective on the origin of pathology.’
‘They're guilty of being fooled by her lies, but they're not guilty of pathologizing normal behavior.’
‘Cultures youth create are criminalized, pathologized, shut down, and silenced, and the powers that be start worrying about losing control of the youth.’
‘Some of what would have been considered normal childhood behavior - squirming, being moody - is now pathologized.’
‘‘All of the discourse about fatness is about pathologizing the individual,’ she said in an interview, also likening it to the eugenics movement.’
‘These authors and attachment theorists emphasize that one of the most powerful negative effects of patriarchy has been the pathologizing of dependency.’
‘She responds by pathologizing rather than exploring the mystery at the heart of her subject.’
‘Besides, titles like that would succeed in pathologizing them, and I don't want that.’
‘Here he found much less intolerance and pathologizing of his behaviors and differences.’
‘Instead, this thinking pathologizes minority cultures by demarcating a center and the ethnic margins.’
‘Medication both subdues and pathologizes women's complaints.’
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