Most emasculating of all, less than 10% of the money London's mayor spends comes from local property taxes.

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The motivation behind it was that, other than potentially isolating yourself in looking down at your phone, it's also emasculating...we all use these touch phones which you can't even feel.

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Recent popular trend articles point out that some men are reacting to the economic downturn by auto-emasculating, transforming themselves from corporate lumberjacks into bizarre caricatures of 1950's housewives, baking, sewing, and homemaking.

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By breaking the post-war consensus and emasculating the unions, she paved the way for a new Labour Party more in tune with the British electorate and less in hock to the union bosses.

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