Submissive used in a sentence

Submissive in a sentence as an adjective

There's power to be gained and money to be made from a submissive, unquestioning people.

She peeled her shirt up in a submissive position on a bar with lots of alcohol involved.

Feels a bit too servile for meIs acting submissive to control someone else really being submissive?

The problem here is marketing the event with "perks" that put women in a submissive position to men by default.

You're forgetting that they pressured her to do it. So, socially pressure someone into doing something sexually submissive = she's fair game to go further?Yeah.

This is because rapists see modest clothing as a sign of submissiveness and are more likely to assault women they see as submissive.

For example wolves have a submissive signal they can show, that stops a fight in the middle, avoiding serious injury or death.

It isn't so. When a company treats candidates abusively - or takes bad hires who are extra slick, cheap, submissive, or similar to themselves - that isn't because of bad applicants.

Don't ever put yourself in a submissive position emotionally or physically around drunk men to try to prove yourself to them.

She is an assertive and decisive businessperson, but is labelled "abrasive" and "a *****" because she isn't meek, submissive and soft-spoken.

The implication of the picture, given the structure and history of our society, is that women are there to be pretty and submissive and men are there to control women with money.

I was simply agreeing with the OP that the situation is not as cut and dried as "dominant behavior good, low status/submissive/nondominant behavior bad.

I think it's vaguely true in an absolute sense, but I haven't lived anywhere else where people are less submissive to authority, except in countries which have obviously corrupt governments.

Copyright as it is is only a particular choice, but matters of personal freedom are things we take to be deeply rooted, and not submissive to merely commercial expediency.

Through a Marxist historical perspective, Engels analyzes the widespread social phenomena associated with female sexual morality, such as fixation on virginity and sexual purity, incrimination and violent punishment of women who commit adultery, and demands that women be submissive to their husbands.