Some words look harmless only on paper. Time gradually wiped out their significance from human memory, and the beautiful poetic sound evokes sincere delight of the audience. Contemporaries do not even understand that "emasculating" is a very painful term ", which radically changes the fate of the animal. Owners of cats will probably understand what they mean.
Veterinary Affairs
The basic meaning of the term is very practical. Literally every day, on farms and subsidiary plots, peasants decide who is intended to improve the population and who will go to the soup. Because “emasculate” is such an original synonym for the words “scatter”, “castrate”.
It is applied to livestock. Horses, bulls, rams and other domestic animals are the main contenders for the procedure, the essence of which is the removal of the sex glands. They do this in order to interrupt a defective line, to remove some property from the breed, but not to kill a specific individual.
By the way, most pets in urban apartments are incapable of reproduction and do not like spree.
Art reading
Nature develops due to the ability to give birth to children, therefore man’s attempts to draw analogies with the non-material world are not surprising: to remove the creative principle, the main idea is to emasculate. A book without a main thought, without an idea will be of no interest to the reader, it will turn into a meaningless set of letters. The situation is similar in politics: remove the key element from the bill, and it will immediately turn into its exact opposite or lose its force. You can lay out a long list of potential victims of merciless editing:
theatrical performances;
scripts and drafts;
term papers and dissertations;
lyrics and poems;
thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
To achieve complete emotionlessness, spiritual sterility - emasculate. This is not difficult: for centuries, censorship has been engaged in the extinction of objectionable pieces from a creative canvas. To this day, some people make malicious changes to laws to circumvent the defense mechanisms of the state and / or weaken political opponents.
Appropriate application
This word has a slight negative connotation, because in the basic reading it means an ordinary veterinary procedure. But in the figurative “emasculating” is to do something bad in relation to a work of art or to a person. You may not like someone else’s creative thought as much as you like, it is much better than an empty shell cleared of copyright ideas. To remove the life-giving principle from anything you need with maximum accuracy.