Moreover, if the new government stands in the way of women achieving equal citizenship they will not simply return to life under the veil, toiling obediently in their homes.
And while we sit not voting and whingeing on about the flaws, the weediness, the bolshiness, the taint of Blairism or the badly judged phrases or mannerisms of this or that MP, the rightwing will be obediently marching to the polling booths regardless and voting like billy-o all the way to victory.
As my friend Jamie Henn of 350.org said, we don't need to get money out so much as we need to get people in (and by that I don't think he means obediently voting at the end of the process, but transforming the process, inside and outside electoral politics).
So at a few minutes past 6am, Chris Aldridge obediently announced to a nation of banker-bashers that Jenkins reckons it will take "up to a decade to rebuild people's trust in his bank following the financial crisis and a succession of scandals".
Everyone follows obediently, for example, when we put down in Condor fjord, walking through a small stretch of subantarctic forest.
As a walking cliche, as a predictable example of the nervy and educated neurotic, I obediently limit red meat, coffee and saturated fats, never binge drink, walk miles, wouldn't touch a sunbed, and have never smoked since having a bewildering drag of my mother's fag at the age of nine.
Heads are bowed, textbooks are open and six tidy rows of 13-year-olds obediently take instruction.
The number of tourists who visit Mongolia each year is also only a fraction of the foreigners who travel to Kazakhstan.Mr Nazarbayev called for a public discussion of his proposal, which obediently ensued in newspapers, on television and on social-media networks.
He is also accused of pushing around the National Assembly, which obediently passed (and then speedily repealed) the law to sell the Colón land.
France's parliament is now considering a ban on wearing the burqa in public.Marnia Lazreg, an Algerian-born professor of sociology at the City University of New York, feels passionately that Muslim women should not wear the veil, as both her mother and grandmother obediently did.
Even as the protesters shouted for Japanese nationals to "get the hell out of China", they waited obediently before filing towards the gates of the consulate in batches.
