How To Use defeminize In A Sentence
- I interpret that as meaning that the individual who did this wanted to degrade her, defeminize her, show her that he was in total control. CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2006
- You are correct in pointing out that in the frat-tastic jockocracy that is today's GOP, it is standard operating procedure to feminize male candidates and defeminize female candidates. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Election Central Debate Roundup
- No, I was just trying to speak what I thought might be in Rosie ` s mind, not what ` s in my mind, but, you know, to draw a mustache on a woman is to defeminize her. CNN Transcript May 25, 2007
- May is defeminized when she occupies those positions and/or performs functions already performed by men.
- Professional careers do not of themselves defeminize women, otherwise the Church would not have raised political women to sainthood, as was the case with St. Elizabeth and St. Clotilde. Communism and Woman
- Most notably, she is not defeminized by her intelligence.
- Where women need none, men need two kinds of hormones: androgens from the testes to prompt the Wolffian duct into development, and a second substance, called Mullerian inhibiting hormone, to suppress the Mullerian duct and defeminize the male fetus. Homosexuality and Biology
- However, the role of the heroine still differs from that of the hero; the role does not defeminize women but gives them depth as characters.
- Finally, the narrator's descriptions of her ‘eye pits, [her] full set of teeth… [and] sour breath’ not only defeminize her but also dehumanize her.
- The closest we came was “defeminize”, but I’ve never heard that used as an insult. Is Manhood a Vessel? A minor disagreement with Hugo Schwyzer
