Guggenheim was full of contradictions: she was a loving but also negligent mother; she was both generous with her money and notoriously mean; she was both embarrassed by and proud of her Jewish heritage; she was submissive in personal relationships but also controlling.
She's in control of that 100%." While she gets to be submissive in her personal life ("I'm like, 'Bagsy being little spoon!' every night"), this domination of every aspect of her career is proving a tiring business.
In the early days of Watergate, she tried, in rather submissive terms, to build a personal bridge to the one man who exceeded even Nixon in his public hatred of the Post — Spiro Agnew.
If self-described feminists choose to wear "excruciatingly high heels" and submit to Botox, Pollitt sees a charade: "Women have learned to describe everything they do, no matter how apparently conformist, submissive, self-destructive or humiliating, as a personal choice that cannot be criticized because personal choice is what feminism is all about".
Religion has become a stern ideal that blasts away the illusions of earthly pursuits and allows only a submissive and humble struggle for redemption after a personal fall that's either a melodramatic or a ridiculous imitation of the Fall.
Most people who are looking for a dominant partner (professional or personal) are naturally dominant people themselves and want to have the submissive experience.
The contract stipulates that "the Dominant may flog, spank, whip or corporally punish the Submissive as he sees fit, for purposes of discipline, for his own personal enjoyment or for any other reason, which he is not obliged to provide".
Extremely submissive and helpless people are very vulnerable to abuse and need immediate help to improve their personal sense of self worth.
Passive, submissive, languid, sedated?
