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What is the female word for emasculate?
The second sense of emasculate is essentially to weaken someone, to enfeeble them. This is not restricted to men, and so no “feminine” version is needed. Weakening a woman and weakening a man are the same thing.
What does it mean to emasculate someone?
Definition of emasculate transitive verb. 1 : to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken. 2 : to deprive of virility or procreative power : castrate.
How do I emasculate my man?
All we gotta do is:
- Get a Good Job.
- Make a Salary So Much as $1 More.
- Have Opinions.
- Offer Help in Any Way (Especially in Public)
- Make Him Do Things Only You Like.
- Win at Anything He Likes Doing.
- Ask His Opinion But Still Do It How You Think It Should Be Done.
- Refuse to Guess What He Won’t Tell You.
Where does the term femininity come from?
Society has a particular idea and definition of exactly what femininity is, but this varies widely for individual women. Femininity comes from the adjective feminine, “relating to women,” from the Latin femina, “woman.”
Is there a feminine phrase equivalent to emasculate?
You can’t. And as such, there will never be a feminine phrase equivalent to emasculate. Because in order to do so, you need a word that encompasses female genital mutilation, to deprive a woman of her female role or identity]
Why don’t we use the verb defeminize instead of emasculate?
The problem is that there just aren’t that many options for the verb and those that do exist are not as prevalent or don’t have the same negative connotations. If we use emasculate to take away masculine qualities, to defeminize could be an option but it doesn’t have the same negative connotation or derogatory meaning.
Is there a “feminine equivalent” to “defeminize”?
To find a “feminine equivalent” requires a different treatment for each of these. Before looking at each of the three senses separately, let me note that the OED does attest both defeminize and unfeminize. The first, defeminize, is given as: defeminize /diːˈfɛmɪnaɪz/, v. trans. To deprive of femininity. So defeminiˈzation; deˈfeminized ppl. a.
Is there a feminine equivalent for weakening a woman?
Weakening a woman and weakening a man are the same thing. If the thought that to make someone less of a man is to make him more of a woman, then a corresponding feminine equivalent may be possible. We use the word unman for doing this to a man; it turns out that a corresponding unwoman exists.