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The issue has been trivialized to the point of being "presented as a form of therapy", argued Trudo Lemmens, a health law professor at the University of Toronto.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

Cobb didn’t find much to read about menopause, beyond shoddy research and medical tracts which trivialized or pathologized what she knew to be a natural phase of life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

Popular culture traps us in the privatized universe of celebrity culture, urging us to define ourselves through the often empty and trivialized and highly individualized interests of celebrities.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2025

"And I feel like for so long, PMS has been mocked and kind of trivialized, and people don't really take it seriously."

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2024

Hellenistic rulers, it is said, trivialized Greek civic life by reducing it to pompous pageantry and contests over who could best flatter the king.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro