June Whitfield

Men have been domesticated, and I don't think it's necessarily good for them. They have been emasculated with the pill and women becoming more independent. I do think it's made a big difference for women to have more charge of their own bodies. It's made them feel more on equal terms and made the men feel less secure, less the master of everything.

English Actress

Kevin Bacon

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

American Actor

Jim Norton

I choose to believe that we are addicted to the rush of being offended, the idea of it, rather than believing we have become a nation of emasculated children whose only defense against an abyss of emotional agony is a trigger warning.

American Comedian

Jessica White

I want a man who isn't questioning who he is. I want a man to be able to stand next to me and not disappear and not be emasculated by my success.

American Model

Jemele Hill

Too often, black athletes are presented as angry, overly aggressive and overly sexual. Or sometimes, they're just plain emasculated.

American Journalist

Ridley Scott

I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.

British Director

Karen Armstrong

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

English Writer

Hanna Rosin

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

Israeli Author

Rachel Bloom

For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.

American Actress

Patrick Wilson

Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.

Often used metaphorically to describe reducing power or effectiveness.

Figurative Use

Common in discussions about legislative power or authority.

Political Context

Be aware that 'emasculate' can be sensitive if it implies weakness is linked to a lack of masculinity.

Cultural Sensitivity

Directly refers to the act of castration in animals or historically, in humans.

Literal Meaning

Was once a common practice to emasculate servants or slaves for various social reasons.

Historical Context

Discussions about castration can be graphic and are sensitive; use the term with discretion.

Sensitive Topic

 you have to pretend that you're not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him. But what if we question the premise itself? Why should a woman's success be a threat to a man? What if we decide to simply dispose of that word,

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 Using razor-sharp teeth he aims for his challenger's testicles. An emasculating bite.

Emasculate