Fetishize
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To fetishize someone or something is to make them the subject of an often sexual obsession. The verb can also mean treating a person as a sexually charged racial stereotype, reducing them to that stereotype rather than regarding them as an individual.
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What does fetishize mean?
Fetishize is a transitive verb for making someone or something the focus of an often sexual obsession. In sexuality-related use, it describes treating the person or subject as an object of fixation.
Fetishizing someone’s race
Fetishize can also describe racial objectification: viewing or treating someone through a sexually charged racial stereotype. In this use, the person is reduced to an idea about their race rather than regarded as an individual.