emasculate

Adrift and emasculated, Stan is less a patriarch than the defeated captain of a sinking ship, drowning in his futility.

But that caveat is drowned out by the hyperbolic and highly gendered language that frames empathy as emasculating.

In fact, I think those gendered stereotypes — Americans as virile and manly; Europeans as emasculated or effeminate — go back much further than that, and were inhaled by nearly all American men of Trump’s generation.

Soon other TheoBros jumped in, declaring "We need Christian men leading the fight against abortion," arguing that women's suffrage was a mistake, and accusing Hawkins of emasculating her husband by being "busy jet-setting."

Zuckerberg may now see those efforts to address work-life balance and inclusivity as emasculating and "woke," but it's not about gender.