Charlotte, his mother, withdraws into a drug-induced stupor; his father, Dix, takes a job in another city and effectively cuts himself off from his family; his grandmother Edie turns increasingly cynical and sour; his sister Allison becomes a frightened, passive girl, given to bad dreams; and his baby sister, Harriet, develops an obsession with avenging his death.
Like Enid in "You Must Remember This" and Ingrid in "Man Crazy," she is another strangely passive girl whose emotional neediness makes her a magnet for destruction, a love-starved survivor of a dysfunctional childhood in thrall to the specter of an unavailable man.
She is a plump, sallow-skinned and somewhat passive girl who can rarely be got to leave the house, save in her mother's company, whose "reading" consists of vampire romances and whose interest in politics extends to a single appearance at one of Caroline Lucas's rallies.
By contrast, Reese Witherspoon, Emily Blunt and Natalie Portman all carry the promise of intelligence, character and something to say that will trouble many men and the kind of society that relishes passive, pretty girls.
Yet she's not one of those passive de Sade girls who get hauled off to a château in the forest to be repeatedly violated by lustful men; nor is she like their descendant in "The Story of O".
Frontier womanhood has emerged as one of the only historically American models of aspirational femininity available to girls — passive princesses and graceful ballerinas not being native to this land — and one of the only blueprints for commanding female comportment in which they are regularly encouraged to invest or to mimic.
The dominant directors and passive actors were girls and the action-oriented and content-oriented students were boys.
They sent in an official complaint decrying things like outdated gender roles: pictures that make boys seem active and girls passive, like young girls in princess stuff and boys dressed as superheroes.
This goes in line with studies showing that boys are more frequently aggressive victims (but not passive victims) than girls [ 14].
The myth of the other girl can be seen in passive aggressive tweets by girls proclaiming things like, "I hate girls".
