mother-shaming

When someone shames a woman for getting pregnant or being a mother.

People were so mother-shaming toward Sarah by telling her that she wouldn't be able to be a mother since she was a teenager, single, and poor, that she felt pressured into an abortion and later had PTSD from it.

rehumanize

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verb.
1. To restore to humans the sense of self-hood and individuality; to recognize and respect the inherent dignity due to human beings after they have been dehumanized. Coined by the organization Rehumanize International in 2017.

The civilians destroyed by war were rehumanized once a society of peace came about and understood their right to not be deemed "the enemy."

The unborn were rehumanized as their rights were finally taken seriously, decades after being stripped of them.

Deanimalize

To pretend that non-human-animals have less abilities than they actually do, as a way to "other" or belittle them.

To act like animals can't feel pain, can't grieve, can't think etc. even when they can.

The opposite of "antrhopomorphise."

The non-human-animal version of "dehumanize."

Saying that fish can't feel is to deanimalize them. Science has shown that they feel pain and do have intelligence and create communities.

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