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emasculate

verb as in weaken, deprive of force

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

"The only way the swag gap wouldn't be problematic was if the partner with less swag was a cheerleader for their partner and proud of them rather than emasculated or resentful."

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Adrift and emasculated, Stan is less a patriarch than the defeated captain of a sinking ship, drowning in his futility.

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But that caveat is drowned out by the hyperbolic and highly gendered language that frames empathy as emasculating.

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In fact, I think those gendered stereotypes — Americans as virile and manly; Europeans as emasculated or effeminate — go back much further than that, and were inhaled by nearly all American men of Trump’s generation.

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