From the research carried out by a Connecticut sociology professor, Christin Munsch, it seems that men still expect to be breadwinners in the family, and that they can still feel emasculated when their female partners make more money.
Because of the Taff Vale Judgment, which had emasculated trade unions by making them legally responsible for the consequences of their members' actions, more and more trade unionists were accepting the need for parliamentary representation.
They sit at the leatherette wheel of their 100-grand Mercs, temporarily emasculated by the 7in disc of red light, and are possessed by a wrenching, envious rage at the tatty bicycle soaring off into the distance.
In 2013, trade unions have been emasculated but remain the only cohesive force on the side of "ordinary working people".
But the most important reason is that all this was set up in secret with inadequate legislative oversight that was further emasculated by lying and deception on the part of spooks and their bosses.
With organised opposition groups long emasculated, the nascent anti-devaluation movement (pants-waving or not) lacks political leadership.
(These groups now survive, emasculated, in northern Iraq).
Without it, says Razeen Sally, an economist at the Lee Kuan Yew School in Singapore, the TPP "would look emasculated".
Yet the rules, which theoretically included huge fines for excessive borrowing, were never likely to stick, and were soon emasculated by France and Germany.
Palestine's biggest symbol of sovereignty, its parliament, has been emasculated.
With the parliament largely emasculated, television under state control, the press muzzled and once-autonomous regions shackled, the presidency has acquired enormous clout.
