I’ve been given the task by my Queen to write an essay on what the word “submissive” means to me. I hope to convey not only my understanding of the word submissive, but also my understanding of the dominate-submissive relationship as I envision it. While researching this subject, I have been drawn to a quote from Casey K. Cox in the book “The Seduction of Alec Caldwell.” The quote, “He couldn’t even jerk himself off; there was no one to give him permission to cum” sums up what I feel the dominate-submissive relationship is all about, and hopefully I will convey that in this essay. The word submissive literally means ready to conform to the authority or will of others. As an adjective, it is used to describe a person or group of people. In
Butler, Judith. "Besides Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy." Ways Of Readers An Anthology For Writers. Ed. Davis Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky. 9th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. 240-257. Print.
As the story begins, the narrator's compliance with her role as a submissive woman is easily seen. She states, "John laughs at me, but one expects that in marriage" (Gilman 577). These words clearly illustrate the male's position of power in a marriage t...
control by taking away their sense of power and ultimately their own manhood. A direct
...am Victorian society, sexual liberalism transformed the ways in which people arranged their private lives. Shifting from a Victorian environment of production, separate sexual spheres, and the relegation of any illicit extramarital sex to an underworld of vice, the modern era found itself in a new landscape of consumerism, modernism and inverted sexual stereotypes. Sexuality was now being discussed, systemized, controlled, and made an object of scientific study and popular discourse. Late nineteenth-century views on "natural" gender and sexuality, with their attendant stereotypes about proper gender roles and proper desires, lingered long into the twentieth century and continue, somewhat fitfully, to inform the world in which we live. It is against this cultural and political horizon that an understanding of sexuality in the modern era needs to be contextualized.
In anonymous’ The Swimming Lady and Bhen’s The Disappointment the power of desire, and the stripping of it through sexual situations are both common themes. The role of desire is used as a source of power that can be given as in The Disappointment and taken away as in The Swimming Lady. In both texts the females have their power taken from them. In The Swimming Lady it is taken by force and not returned. The female is stripped of the desire the author gives her with in the first 9 stanzas. In The Disappointment first Cloris takes it, empowering herself. It is then taken by Lysander assuming
It has been long debated whether genetics or the environment in which one is raised impacts human psychological development the most. In Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro shows that nurture cannot overcome one’s hereditary inclinations. Ishiguro exploits a world where human nature powerfully contradicts nurturing. He shows us that people, no matter how they were created or how they were raised, desire to be loved and accepted and need to know where they came from and what their future possibilities are.
...y. She may be submissive to him, but at the same time, he is just as submissive to her. I think that he didn’t only tame her, but she tamed and controls him by craft and not violence.
In today’s heterosexual and patriarchal society sex and sexual desires revolve around men, and Hoagland sets out seven patterns showing how this is the case. Sex is thought of as a “powerful and uncontrollable urge” and male sexuality therefore is a basic component to male health, sexual acts show male conquest and domination, sexual freedom gives men total access to and over women, rape is, by this logic, natural and women who resist a man’s advances are “‘frigid’”, sex involves losing control and sexual desire, when described as erotic, “involves a death wish (eros)”. The bottom line is that in today’s heterosexual and patriarchal society sex is all about men having a natural power over women; sex involves a total loss of control which creates a split between reason and emotion since being in control is a matter of reason controlling emotions, “we tend to believe that to be safe we must be rational and in control but to...
Milstein, Susan A. Taking Sides Clashing Views in Human Sexuality. Ed. William J. Taverner and Ryan W. McKee. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. Print.
The tone in which Brady writes this seems demanding and implies that a female is forced to control her sexual urges to make a man feel masculine and can only please her man when he wants to have sexual intimacy. This gives no consent or space for what a wife would think. This is abusive because she would have to accept whatever the man wants and have no say in opting out if she is not up for
This essay will discuss the ways sexuality is gendered and their impacts towards both men and women by exploring the contemporary heterosexual scripts from a sociological perspective on three main aspects; i.e. sex drive, desire and power. It studies how men are deemed to have a higher sexual edge than women, who acts as the relationship gatekeepers. This essay analyses the theory that women predictably pursuits love and relationships while men are more sexually controlled by lusts and cravings. Sexual dominance and passiveness is another traditional script inspected in this essay, focusing on how men are always expected to be the prevailing initiator thus devouring more power in relationships while women stays being the weaker, submissive receivers.
Permissive, with little or no control, motivates by support when requested by the group/individuals, uses upward and downward communication between members of the group, disperses decision making throughout the group, places emphasis on the group, do not criticize.
Delegation is the method of giving decision-making authority to lower-level employees. For the process to be successful, a worker must be able to obtain the resources and cooperation needed for successful completion of the delegated task. Empowerment of the workforce and task delegation is closely interrelated. Empowerment occurs when upper-level employees share power with lower-level employees. This involves providing the training, tools and management support that employees need to accomplish a task. Thus, the employee has both the authority and the means to accomplish the work. Even though authority can be delegated, responsibility cannot; the person who delegates a task is held responsible for its success in the end. Thus the assigned worker is liable for meeting the goals and objectives of the assignment (Camp 2006).
“It’s like you’re living in jail, doing a five year sentence where you’re only having a visitor once in awhile.”(DeShong 93). Men think that they have the right to do what they want without looking at the effects it has on women. Some of the men would hit on their partners and if they left and came back would hit them again because they didn’t have the right to leave the first time. Dominance isn’t all about being violent but that is the only way that men see it so that is how they act.