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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.

Rashad Robinson: Br��no: Satire, Humor and Stereotypes 2009

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.

AQUAMAN DOWN: Looking for the Best of the BP Oil Spill Cartoons 2010

This promotion of abstinence and warnings about 'trivializing' sex is based on as little reality as the Catholic Church's attempt to prevent teenage girls having the HPV vaccine because it would encourage them to have sex.

Archive 2009-07-01 TK 2009

That kind of trivializing response wouldn't call people to question why we're only seeing this emotion now; instead it will just inflame people who saw the emotion as genuine and thus will see Jackson as trying to belittle it.

Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Campaign Co-Chair Questions Hillary's Tears 2009

And I just wonder whether by going for the easy, quick hit, which is to talk about her as a fashion plate, we in the media are kind of trivializing her a little bit.

CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2009 2009

This promotion of abstinence and warnings about 'trivializing' sex is based on as little reality as the Catholic Church's attempt to prevent teenage girls having the HPV vaccine because it would encourage them to have sex.

Lying for Jesus? :2 Condoms TK 2009

Newsweek's Howard Fineman, for instance, says that the McCain camp is in danger of "trivializing" McCain's sacrifice.

Pundits And Writers Start Hitting McCain For Non-Stop P.O.W. References 2009

That kind of trivializing response wouldn't call people to question why we're only seeing this emotion now; instead it will just inflame people who saw the emotion as genuine and thus will see Jackson as trying to belittle it.

Obama Campaign Co-Chair Questions Hillary's Tears 2009

This is the kind of trivializing, deliberately demasculinizing, crap that lost Gore the election in 2000.

Maureen Dowd Devotes Whole Column To Edwards' Hair 2009

Newsweek's Howard Fineman, for instance, says that the McCain camp is in danger of "trivializing" McCain's sacrifice.

POW POW POW 2009