It includes, too, calling, for instance, gay men mama's boys or sissies . The language suggests that the women or others are childlike and don't have to be taken seriously. It gives us permission to treat them like we would treat children sometimes recalcitrant children. At any rate, using infantilizing terms means we aren't treating a person as our equal. If they're used in a reciprocal relationship where the power dynamics are equalized, using such terms may not reflect the kind of trivialization we're talking about here.
Correction is accomplished by deleting the infantilizing terms .
Some words or terms in our language have positive or neutral connotations when we use them in reference to men but negative or sexualized connotations when we use them in reference to women. She's easy . A master was a property holder, a mistress his wife and probably disallowed by law to hold her own property. Now a mistress is the woman who is not the master's wife. The term mistress today most often suggests a woman sexually involved with a married man for some financial gain.