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To enchildify someone is when Person A meets Person B and is made insecure by them for some reason, so from now on Person A addresses Person B in an age-inappropriately belittling or [condescending] manner, as though Person B is a child: e.g.,

1) Speaking to Person B in a high-pitched, soft, sickly-sweet voice when both individuals are adults

2) Pausing and smiling ingratiatingly sidelong at Person B after every few sentences, the way you do to a toddler; an "aww, isn't Person B cuuuute" kind of thing

3) Always asking Person B how their finances are doing, how their [relationships] or job are doing, which carries the faint, deliberate implication Person B must be doing badly [all the time]

4) Always offering (within earshot of others) to aid Person B financially or with advice, when Person B has never asked for such help

5) Saying "OHHHH! Isn't that NICE!" or "Isn't that SWEET!" after Person B mentions something good that has happened for them recently

"Enchildifying in action" is almost invisible to men, but a high warfare art among women. Women sometimes enchildify [other women] if the second group of women have not had babies yet or choose to be single. This is most marked in [African-American], Jewish and Mediterranean cultures. The reason men do not enchildify each other is because a man would beat another man severely if he tried it. It is a way of marking territory, a way of Person A declaring themselves bigger and badder than Person B, and of making Person B "one-down" in front of other women.

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