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Clearly, then, there is a link between social status/class and feelings of powerlessness leading to the resort to violence; the 'demasculinizing' effects of poverty and of economic and social change may be eroding men's traditional roles as providers and limiting the availability of alternative, meaningful roles for men in families and communities.
Progressive Bloggers 2009
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This is the kind of trivializing, deliberately demasculinizing, crap that lost Gore the election in 2000.
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Or the more worrisome but modifiable feminizing and demasculinizing effects caused by endocrine disruptors in widely used farm herbicides like atrazine.
"The more we play God or try to improve on Mother Nature, the more damage we are doing with all kinds of experiments that... turn into nightmares." Ann Althouse 2007
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That was a case of ostensibly heterosexual males intent on humiliating strangers by treating them "like women," thus demasculinizing them.
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That was a case of ostensibly heterosexual males intent on humiliating strangers by treating them "like women," thus demasculinizing them.
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EPA should test demasculinizing pollutants collectively, NRC says
Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews Science News 2010
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Along with blaming the Jews, he blamed homosexuals for the economic problems in Germany after World War I, along with demasculinizing a nation with "degenerate behavior" and "corrupting" public morality.
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Along with blaming the Jews, he blamed homosexuals for the economic problems in Germany after World War I, along with demasculinizing a nation with "degenerate behavior" and "corrupting" public morality.
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