Gentlemen - What emasculates you?

[Valmy]

• Sitting in the passenger seat while a woman drives.  Men drive.  Women sit on the passenger side and touch up their makeup.  That's just the natural order of things.  Only exception here is if I'm drunk.
• Relinquishing the remote control.  This used to bother me more, but the wife likes watching TV a lot more than I do, so I threw in the towel.

Wow I totally fail on both counts

I hate driving and my wife usually has the remote.  She watches a crapload of TV and I do not particularly like TV unless it is sports.

[CountDeMoney]

You said Seedy was submissive to all the women in his life.  How is that not emasculating?

Yeah;  I'd like to know how having positive, trusting relationships with the women in my family emasculates me, too.

[Drakken]

Unfortunately for a lot of women that is the best way to get them to like you.

If your aim is to actively seek to make her feel less of a woman, you are actively attempting to hurt her for the sake her hurting her. You are way over demonstrating that you are above her and can put her in her place, and just being a mean motherfucker.

No woman's gonna be attracted to a man calling her "fat" or "small tits" , even he's if Channing Tatum. These are the two insults that will kick a insecure woman into her ovaries as much as actually kicking her between the legs.

[Malthus]

I'm pretty sure a box cutter could. 

I was going to mention that but didn't want to be so crass.

If crassness is required, I can provide!

I take the plunge on behalf of us all.   

Serious answer though: box-cutters aside, "emasculation" implies something that attacks your role as a man, so what could do it depends entirely on what you think your role as a man is or ought to be at the time (as seperate or in addition to your role as a human being).

Nowadays, that would mostly be for me my role as a father, so anything that attacked my worth as a father would be "emasculating". Provides a bad male role model for my son, that sort of thing.

Stuff like letting my wife drive the car cannot be "emasculating" to me because in my opinion, at least for me, my role as a man does not require being the person who drives the car. 

[Admiral Yi]

Nothing that I can think of.

But if a woman is trying to put me down, it's time for the walking papers, whether the put-downs concern my masculinity or not.

[Viking]

you don't call her fat or flat chest, it's more a case of damning by faint praise.

"are you sure you can still fit in to that dress you used when....."

or

"no dear you don't need implants they are fine"

she'll do all the self recrimination herself from then on desperate to make the man in her life happy with her.

[garbon]

• Sitting in the passenger seat while a woman drives.  Men drive.  Women sit on the passenger side and touch up their makeup.  That's just the natural order of things.  Only exception here is if I'm drunk.
• Relinquishing the remote control.  This used to bother me more, but the wife likes watching TV a lot more than I do, so I threw in the towel.

Not sure if serious.

[CountDeMoney]

But if a woman is trying to put me down, it's time for the walking papers, whether the put-downs concern my masculinity or not.

This. A pattern of insulting behavior is still a pattern of insulting behavior, regardless of who it's from.
You wouldn't take that shit from someone on the street, don't know why anyone would bother putting up with it in an alleged "relationship".

[Viking]

• Sitting in the passenger seat while a woman drives.  Men drive.  Women sit on the passenger side and touch up their makeup.  That's just the natural order of things.  Only exception here is if I'm drunk.
• Relinquishing the remote control.  This used to bother me more, but the wife likes watching TV a lot more than I do, so I threw in the towel.

neither of those is emasculating.. not being allowed to drive or not being allowed to handle the clicker from time to time is.

[garbon]

But if a woman is trying to put me down, it's time for the walking papers, whether the put-downs concern my masculinity or not.

This. A pattern of insulting behavior is still a pattern of insulting behavior, regardless of who it's from.
You wouldn't take that shit from someone on the street, don't know why anyone would bother putting up with it in an alleged "relationship".

You tell 'em, sistahs. We don't need to put up with no mens making us feel bad about ourselves.

[Drakken]

Serious answer though: box-cutters aside, "emasculation" implies something that attacks your role as a man, so what could do it depends entirely on what you think your role as a man is or ought to be at the time (as seperate or in addition to your role as a human being).

Nowadays, that would mostly be for me my role as a father, so anything that attacked my worth as a father would be "emasculating". Provides a bad male role model for my son, that sort of thing.

Stuff like letting my wife drive the car cannot be "emasculating" to me because in my opinion, at least for me, my role as a man does not require being the person who drives the car. 

I agree, although women also have a social construct, an image, even a fantasy on how a "manly" man should act and behave. While some things may not be emasculating to you, the woman might see it as such and change her behavior accordingly. Then again, it's where good communication sinks in.

As I've written above, the main unit of measure is respect. It's something that cannot be explained to a woman, you just feel it. You feel secure, you feel on common grounds, and you feel like you have the full support of your woman in your life, and that she counts on you to help her and protect her if she ever needs it.

[Malthus]

But if a woman is trying to put me down, it's time for the walking papers, whether the put-downs concern my masculinity or not.

This. A pattern of insulting behavior is still a pattern of insulting behavior, regardless of who it's from.
You wouldn't take that shit from someone on the street, don't know why anyone would bother putting up with it in an alleged "relationship".

You tell 'em, sistahs. We don't need to put up with no mens making us feel bad about ourselves.

That's some pretty good emasculation right there. 

[Scipio]

You know what would emasculate me?  If someone cut off my cock and balls.

[derspiess]

• Sitting in the passenger seat while a woman drives.  Men drive.  Women sit on the passenger side and touch up their makeup.  That's just the natural order of things.  Only exception here is if I'm drunk.
• Relinquishing the remote control.  This used to bother me more, but the wife likes watching TV a lot more than I do, so I threw in the towel.

Not sure if serious.

MEN DRIVE.

[crazy canuck]

• Sitting in the passenger seat while a woman drives.  Men drive.  Women sit on the passenger side and touch up their makeup.  That's just the natural order of things.  Only exception here is if I'm drunk.
• Relinquishing the remote control.  This used to bother me more, but the wife likes watching TV a lot more than I do, so I threw in the towel.

Not sure if serious.

MEN DRIVE.

Where are you from again?  Like I said it is the insecure ones that are apt to feel emasulated.