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castrate /cas·trate/ (kas´trat) 1. to deprive of the gonads, rendering the individual incapable of reproduction. 2. a castrated individual.
castrate 1. to deprive of the gonads, rendering the animal incapable of reproduction. 2. a castrated animal. The strictly correct usage of the word is to apply it to animals of both sexes. Common usage is to restrict its use to the male. |
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It helps us better understand Nietzsche's dazzling, but often unbalanced (in more ways than one) riffs on metaphysics (as a completely meaningless dimension), religion (as the castrator and killer of life), and democracy (as the triumph of the rabble). The Rosicrucians, the Tongs of Terror, the Cult of the Black Mother, The Secret Rites of Mitra, and the Castrators of Russia are cases in point (Daural, 1961/1989). The second panel presented a nude female torso, its pubic hair shaved away to expose a slit of flesh that seemed at once a gash or wound caused by the adjacent beak but also, in its sharp parallel lines, a visual analog to the beak, thus rendering the implied meaning of the photograph indeterminate: Is woman sexual victim or castrator, innocent recipient of male violence or cause of it? |
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