In any culture there are people who are assertive, submissive, friendly, unfriendly, vibrant, mellow, and so on.
The fight generally comes to a quick conclusion when one of the combatants adopts a submissive posture and flees.
Their ideal notion of femininity was more distinct here and represented through the image of the 'submissive wife', who should obey and please her husband.
This is no submissive martyr-victim but a woman of physical power and presence.
Secondly, the closed list encourages party loyalty, a culture of conformism and submissive politicians.
Whether she purports to be proper or not, she must be forced back into her role of proper, submissive femininity.
It is threatening, not innocuous, eradicating the social presupposition that silent women are submissive, rather than "within themselves," speaking a subversive language of neutrality.
The morals and virtues that it ostensibly taught lauded behaviour that was submissive, particularly on the part of women and the young.