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Last night, Trude assisted in her first castration since emasculating a guinea pig back in Bristol: this time it was a camel.
I think that may be a step forward, to have people other than women project their desire onto you without feeling it emasculates you.
But another man in his forties, whose in-laws are rich, finds it hard to accept gifts from them: "I feel emasculated in that old-fashioned role of provider.”
They were accused of trying to emasculate the report's recommendations.
To my mind, that would not be an emasculated statement and would therefore be a valid one.
One takes the report, espouses it and then emasculates, diminishes and reduces it from what it was intended to do.
I would have thought that this emasculates half the reason for its existence.
They are emasculating the power of local authorities to provide houses to let.
Their powers of enforcement would be emasculated by the removal of the sanction of sequestration for contempt of court.
They are driven back on an emasculated policy.
They are war-minded, and to take away their armaments emasculates their nationalism and takes away their national machismo.
However, what we know from government intentions is that they are to be emasculated and returned to local education authority control.
