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- verb Present participle of
effeminize .
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Examples
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In his stand-up act and this movie he co-wrote with SNL scribe Fred Wolf, Spade emphasizes both his innate lack of masculinity and the effeminizing effect of being in showbiz — the jealous gossiping and obsession with your looks.
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In his stand-up act and this movie he co-wrote with SNL scribe Fred Wolf, Spade emphasizes both his innate lack of masculinity and the effeminizing effect of being in showbiz — the jealous gossiping and obsession with your looks.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star” 2009
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The proximity of Callicratidas to this description of inversion, coupled with the reference to his "excessive," and thus effeminizing, desire for boys
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
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Davidson suggests that rather than being the poster boys of effeminizing receptive intercourse, these need to be seen as poster boys of excess and commerce.
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
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I suggest that to preserve if not foreground the alterity of the Greeks, Halperin performs an inversion of inversion; that is, unlike modern accounts of homosexuality that explain it as a form of effeminizing, the Greeks understood a taste for boys as masculinizing.
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
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Whereas modern western values largely dictate that all homosexual acts are suspect and effeminizing.
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We see the Ancient Greek and Roman habit of effeminizing orientals e.g.
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There is nowadays, throughout almost the whole of Europe, a sickly irritability and sensitiveness towards pain, and also a repulsive irrestrainableness in complaining, an effeminizing, which, with the aid of religion and philosophical nonsense, seeks to deck itself out as something superior -- there is a regular cult of suffering.
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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Modern Christianity is really effeminizing to men and so many men are leaving Christianity.
henrymakow.com 2009
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