What's the female version of emasculate?

[Anonymous]

[TallAnon]

William Safire in The San Francisco Chronicle, This World, Nov. 16,1986, p.19, discusses the possible opposites for emasculate. He concludes that defeminate is best, after also considering effeminate, spay, hysterectate, demulierize, gyneclate, degynify, and exogynate.

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[Asker]

ahh thank you!

[redlif3]

I call it infeminine even though it is not a word. But we all should start using it. Emasculate is when a guy who trys to be the exact same as the other men when they are not confident with them selves. Same thing for infeminine, just the woman is not comfortable with themselves

[Asker]

I agree and yes that makes sense

[redlif3]

infeminine is not a word though. but it should be. because I want to see more women who are original and is being their own self. lol

[Asker]

yea lol

[ManasiM]

Its a wrong question, dear :)

[Jezeppe]

efeminate... Might of made a new word there but I don't care :D

[Asker]

it works :-)

[Jezeppe]

Yess :) Glad it works.

[mrsticks]

I don't really think there is one.
The closest thing would be defeminise.

[BasicFlake]

The closest fit would probably be defeminize.

[jacquesvol]

FGM: Female Genital Mutilation
www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/

[Asker]

What?

[jacquesvol]

Read more about it. It's common practice in big parts of the world, among Christians and Muslims. And it existed before Jesus.

[Asker]

Well I didn't mean that. I mean I know about that but I meant like a word that means depriving a woman of her being a woman or making her feel less of a woman. Like men its emasculate.

[Anonymous]

There's no word for it. Being 'feminine' was and isn't as important as 'being masculine'.

[Asker]

foh xD

[Opinion Owner]

It's true. However women are kept to other standards. Specifically women were meant to be chaste, sweet pretty and good with kids. So women who failed those things were treated as "less then women" or not "proper" women.

[Asker]

Uhh then there would be a word for it. You just went against what you said.

[redlif3]

LMAO exactly.

[Opinion Owner]

Okay then. What's the word? The word meaning a verb form of degenerating a woman's status as a real woman?

See, part of core required 'masculinity' is being non-feminine. That's a 'requirement' of being a 'real man'. Not to show feelings, not to be dainty, etc.

A core part of being a 'woman' is not being 'non masculine'. You could always be a 'real woman' while able to earn an income, shoot a gun, be brave, etc. As long as you were also chaste, good with kids, and naturally pretty. That's what i mean by saying that 'being feminine' was less a key part of the standards to 'be a real woman' then 'being masculine' was and is a key component of 'being a real man'.

[Opinion Owner]

denigrating* not degenerating.

[Asker]

so real women can only be attractive women? that makes no sense and you would call a woman that is dike or just acts like a dude as one that is not a real woman. Women are feminine so if she's not then she's not a real woman. Men are masculine so if he's not he is not a real. man. Common sense.

[Opinion Owner]

Yes women who are ugly are often mistreated and subject to jokes about not being women. It's not right but is that the culture? Yup.

[Asker]

no. I don't know where you got that from. Being a woman is how you carry yourself and how you treat people and yourself. also personality. Oh I guess ugly men are not men either.

[redlif3]

Too many stereotypes. I hate those because it calls out every one in the specific group being judged by the cover and not the book.

[vladz]

effeminate

[blondfrog]

unfeminine I guess.

[adamjamieson]

efemculate

[Anonymous]

Butch.

[Anonymous]

feminist.