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[–] 14 points 5 months ago (8 children)

There's "defeminize" or the more recent "defeminate."

If we take the other meanings of "emasculate":

In the sense of literal castration, there's "oöphorectomy"; in the sense of complete neutering (removal of penis and testicles) there's "spay."

In the sense of weakening or sapping energy... well, the meaning isn't gendered, but the morphology does follow the "male-as-norm" principle. I couldn't find a feminine gendered variation (at least, not in English), but this also doesn't appear to be the meaning that OP is referring to.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Whoever failed to coin defemistrate should be shot

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Do you think they're talking about throwing men out the window?

    They are not, for the record.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    No, it was a tongue in cheek comment that their wordplay was sick.

    R e l a x

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Felt the need to check in seeing as how you’ve conflated talking about masculinity with comparing ourselves to men.

    Happy cake day!

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