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[b]Does neuter only refer to emasculating men[/b] or does that actually show us more about the way your brain works. You need to argue less and read more.

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Yes. Yes, it does. Yes. Even veterinarians use "neuter" in that way. Find me an example where someone refers to "neutering" a female-coded workforce. "You can't neuter the nursing profession and then call for those same skills." "You can't neuter the housecleaning crew and then call for those same skills."[/quote]

At work we regularly neuter capability of our satellites. But we are engineers and not lit majors. Though we have a male and female staff. I wonder if the women are pissed when neutering a deployed capability comes up. [/quote]

If you're engineers with a 50-50 workforce, or maybe even a woman-dominated workforce, then you're very atypical engineers.

In any case, the issue is not anger. The majority of veterinarians are now women, and nobody gets angry (as far as I know) about the phrase spay-and-neuter. The issue is, what does the word choice say about the speaker's underlying assumptions? If you want to, you can think about the use of "male" and "female" to describe the ends of connectors/fasteners.[/quote]

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