Definition of "trivializing" [trivializing]

• Present participle of trivialize. (verb)

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• "And in a country where gay and lesbian parents can still be denied the ability in some states to adopt the children they have raised since birth - and where those children can even be taken away from the only parents they've ever known - the idea of trivializing gay families, making them the butt of a series of crude jokes, and reinforcing pernicious stereotypes about gay men and children didn't feel funny."
• "Whether its Dora the Explorer being visually co-opted into the Arizona immigration debate or the Super Mario Bros. plumbing the depths of the BP oil spill, "trivializing" a controversy with a cartoon of course often enables us to laugh about it."
• "This is the kind of trivializing, deliberately demasculinizing, crap that lost Gore the election in 2000."