Sentences with phrase «as emasculating»

Beginning in 1979, with the Radical Faeries, and then also with Robert Bly, whom (like Jeff Koons) some of us may or may not like, there's an attitude very much like the»50s critique of the man in the gray flannel suit or the white collar worker, of American commercial capitalism as emasculating, right?

And the Matriarch is generally thought of as an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.

It drives me crazy these days that eating healthy is viewed as emasculating.

I think there is a challenge for some who share the view about empowering current members as to whether or not they also support lowering barriers to entry (whether via primaries or other methods) as a way to increase participation, or whether any such moves are seen as emasculating of current membership

On this Father's Day, as emasculating as it may be to admit, I'm very grateful our kids have a mom who understands the flapper flush mechanisms in their toilets.

And frankly, the suggestion that men are too weak to handle these realities is as emasculating as it is unbiblical.

Ty Burrell is low key but effective as the emasculated Bob, while Olivia Wilde steals a number of scenes as the stripper Brooke.

Not exact matches

A veteran Playboy columnist predicted that the controversial medication would be «as monumental as the birth - control pill,» and the publisher of Penthouse hailed it as a macho wonder drug that would «free the American male libido» from the feminists who sought to «emasculate» them.

By contrast, traditional philosophy tends to emasculate texts like the above, construing them as mere anthropomorphisms, since obviously Gad can not be described in emotional and temporal terms — or so the doctrine goes, despite massive evidence of religious experience to the contrary.

By contrast, traditional philosophy tends to emasculate texts like the above, construing them as mere...

Just as the belittling of fasting has contributed to a distorted and flabby spirituality, so also the neglect of sacrifice produces a much emasculated Christianity.

We could get every man, real man as opposed to pussified James Dobson knock - off crying Promise Keeping homoerotic worship loving mama's boy sensitive emasculated neutered exact male replica evangellyfish, and have a conference in a phone booth.

Some of the party's constituents believe Mr. Cuomo is intent on emasculating their coalition before he arrives in Albany, viewing it as a potential threat to his authority if he becomes governor.

My ex felt exactly the opposite, as he said he felt «emasculated» by my competencies!

The film also recharges Phillips's creative batteries, reinforcing him as a top voice for silliness, especially when it comes to the dark fates of emasculated men.

Chris Parnell is here as a fellow emasculated grad - student - partner, padding out the number of NBC sitcom actors with roles in the film, which was produced by Universal, which owns NBC, yada yada.

Mr. Mom is, in parts, hilarious — most often when it's Jack coming to terms with his self - image in a role that he feels is emasculating, rather than in scenes built upon flimsy jokes about his ineptitude as a parent, or in the home environment.

Sexual Content: C - Male rear nudity shown when characters skinny dip, male and female characters dress in scanty primitive clothing, woman presented to man as present, ape characters touch their mouths together in an affectionate kiss and hold hands on several occasions, man shown sleeping beside a woman (no sexual inference is made), man comments on a world with «lots of lovemaking but no love,» man is disrobed causing humiliation and male rear nudity is shown, talk of emasculating a man.

Their chemistry, tension and eventual «break - up» surfaces gradually and elegiacally, as John turns from championing Mark as an individual who doesn't have to live in his brother's shadow, to corrupting Mark's sense of self, introducing him to drugs and tactlessly bringing David onto the Foxcatcher team, thus emasculating Mark and undermining his control.

His avatar, Tony, is seen as weak — as was he, emasculated by both Susan and her Southern debutant mother (Laura Linney).

No doubt in another lame attempt at shock, The Cottage is also needlessly misogynistic, as the women in it have no function beyond the role of one - dimensional ball - breaking shrew: endless references to pussified Peter's nagging «fat pig» of a wife are bandied about while Tracey screams obscenities at the top of her lungs and emasculates our hapless anti-heroes at every turn.

Presented almost as a sombre superhero origin story, Darkest Hour then details how Churchill won round his enemies — and there were quite a few — by standing up to Adolf Hitler and refusing to appease him with the various emasculating peace deals that his rivals had been touting.

The Exorcist - Lite with a Hebrew twist, The Possession is an earnest attempt at a family drama masquerading as a horror movie, one that is ultimately rendered toothless by overly familiar tropes and a emasculating PG - 13 rating.

Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller explore new depths as brothers building their lives as a quiet refutal to the emasculating father they love.

Whip It is about a lot of things: families [natural and surrogate]; the exuberance of sports — and its importance, or lack of same, in our lives; independence from, but not losing the respect of one's parents; feminism as an empowering of the individual rather than the emasculating of the other, and so on...

And so into the wilds of the Midwest they go — which, as shown here, really is a wilderness, where the best job Tom can find is sandwich maker at a local deli and, aided and abetted by a similarly emasculated «faculty husband,» he regresses into a neo-primitive, hunter - gatherer state, complete with mutton chops and crossbow.

As Paul, Bogart is emasculated on - screen in more ways than one.

His beanstalk frame sheathed in an emasculating banana - yellow housecoat, Nolte wore a pair of bookish specs that offset his craggy mug, and his snow - coloured hair stood unnaturally on end, as though he'd just seen a ghost.

Fassbender is wild - eyed as the slave owner emasculated by his shrewish, controlling wife (Sarah Paulson), Cumberbatch is warm and paternal as the slightly - more - compassionate Ford, and Pauls Dano and Giamatti have a particular flair for playing despicable characters that they display here.

Carl's getting squeezed at work as well, where his boss Bob (Michael Douglas), who also happens to be Molly's father, systematically emasculates Carl in every imaginable way.

In «Taken,» Neeson began as a former CIA agent, emasculated by domesticity.

Emasculated teachers» unions can still play a major role in negotiating work rules and personnel practices at the local level, as well as influencing local school board elections where voter turnout is often low.

NEA literature labels school choice backers as radical zealots, «Religious conservatives push «choice» as a way of shoving children into private schools, and emasculating the effect of NEA.»

Not only did this negatively impact the black middle class of the entire city, it emasculated the black community as a whole, which still feels the sting of that decision today.

The other reason Horizon: Zero Dawn still holds some allure to me after so many blandly satisfactory hours is that it is unquestionably the most woke game released by a major studio in years, a «core gamer» game in which women and mothers are revered as righteous warrior goddesses and in which almost every single dude is either a maundering sad boy or an emasculated angry boy or simply a concerned bystander boy, waiting for your help.

The «market reform» of the legal aid scheme will emasculate a system established by Clement Attlee's Labour government as a key pillar of the welfare state.

Whether this is viewed as a backward step, emasculating the social goal behind DDA 1995 or as (in the economists» language at a time of recession and falling share values) a necessary «correction» to a situation that had got out of hand depends on one's viewpoint.

If I had trusted that my husband was earning as much money as he could, I wouldn't have emasculated him by implying that I found him lacking ambition.