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That dynamic was taboo for generations of Americans who feared it might emasculate men and ruin couples’ romantic lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025

It's childish and weird to act like even looking at a tampon box will emasculate you.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2024

The British attempted to correct the problem by using another lubricant, but Indian troops remained suspicious and some began to believe the British were intentionally using lubricants made of offensive materials to emasculate the sepoys.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

When Martha calls in the local vet to fix some of the tomcats hanging around, Ernest accuses her of trying to emasculate him.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2018

There exist at present," he remarks, "sixty-eight laws in France, all intended to suppress, curtail, weaken, emasculate, and even to strangle newspapers; but not one single law to foster them in their dire misfortune.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton

“One guy presents himself as a kind of salt of the earth, a person you could hang out with, and then effectively emasculates the other by presenting them as the opposite.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2020

“I wanted a gender pronoun that was fun, and that immediately emasculates you—because you can’t roll your eyes and say ‘judy’ without being camp,” Mac told the Guardian during the “24-Decade” run.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2019

New York artist Cassady Benson illustrated a new version of this fowl emperor that emasculates him by removing his rooster comb and turning him into a round hen guarding a mysterious egg.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2017

Eichhorst thinks he’s won the Lumen, allegedly the key to worldwide vampire eradication, but Palmer publicly emasculates him by yanking funds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2015

It not infrequently happens that, as in the case of the Electoral Reform Bill of 1910, the lower house so emasculates a measure as to compel the Government to withdraw it.

From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

It seems to me the premise is flawed—that men are either emasculated or overly macho.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Allow me to weigh in here, given that you mentioned it in your letter: It’s not your job to reduce your life savings or net worth so your husband doesn’t feel threatened or emasculated.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026

He thought that the assertive Congress of the 1970s had gone too far and had emasculated the presidency, making it nearly impossible for the president to get things done.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

“He emasculated any public agency that might put a brake on his power,” Hunt said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024

She got an emasculated carrot, a droopy leaf of celery, a soft tomato and a fresh sprig of parsley.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Poor Mr. Biswas, a man of meager prospects but irrepressible pride, must suffer through a series of demeaning dwellings to which his in-laws, the emasculating Tulsis, confine him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

And it's heartening to see these varied, unrelated models of the ways that adults, and men specifically, can assist in raising the children in their midst without anyone viewing their contributions as emasculating or unseemly.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022

These deficiencies made it hard for him to advance in his epic fights with Mr. Cuomo, who was engaged in a persistent project of emasculating him.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021

There is absolutely an alternate universe where Honey Boy—which borrows from the sometimes tender, mostly emasculating nickname that LaBeouf’s James calls his preteen son—isn’t an achievement on multiple fronts.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2019

Between 1867 and 1871, he pushed himself even harder, growing thousands of hawkweeds in another patch of garden, emasculating the flowers with the same forceps, and dusting pollen with the same paintbrush.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee