gatekeeping
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gatekeeping verb
- To control or limit access to something.
- To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
- (by extension) To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or activity, usually due to undue resentment or overprotectiveness
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monitoringsurveillancegatekeeperismexclusivismexclusionismclosuretone policingsegregationalismpaternalismapartheidgroupismperipheralizationrespectability politicscensorismpolitical correctnessrestrictionism
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