Gatekeepery
"Gatekeepery" in a Sentence (3 examples)
Nostalgia is unproductive at best, and harmful at worst. I think it leads to gatekeeper-y behaviour, in terms of people feeling ownership over how we talk about things, or what something should be, or what gender a Ghostbuster is allowed to be.
Seems like gender transition has gotten easier and less gatekeepery since the last time El looked into it.
This was one of those gatekeepery anecdotes that you needed an English/Posh Git dictionary to make any sense of.
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