"submissive role" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It typically refers to a position or function in which one is expected to be subservient or obedient to someone else. Example: She was hired for the submissive role of personal assistant to the CEO, always carrying out his orders without question.
"I got feedback on my spanking game, 'Hurt Me Plenty' from players who wanted to roleplay more of a submissive role, so I thought about what submission might be for a video game player.
The women, for their part, were only too happy to adopt the prescribed submissive role.
At this age a dog will accept a submissive role more readily than at any other time in its life.
I may be playing a submissive role, but the joke's on you, because really I'm the boss".
It is possible for her to achieve a self-image as an alluring sexy female, she may (perhaps wrongly) believe she needs to play a submissive role.
Once exposed to American freedoms, foreign-born wives often outgrow the submissive role their husbands prize, exposing them to domestic violence.
The traditional roles of dominant and submissive roles are reversed in many cases.
Deborah Bershad, director of archives at the Art Commission, said that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League and Harlem activists protested the original designs because they depicted blacks in submissive roles.
It was there that she met police officer and amateur photographer Jerry Tibbs, who introduced her to nude portraits, erotica and the S&M scene for which she modelled, alternating between dominatrix and submissive roles.
Dicey acting as the leader – she has younger brothers and a younger sister – is in contrast to CS Lewis's Pevensie children in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written when tradition dictated that boys led and girls followed, it is the a boy who is the oldest and therefore the leader with the girls playing important but distinctly submissive roles.
My local charity shops are swimming in copies of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' - I loathe this book because it normalises the submissive roles of women sexually - what a vile message to send to adolescents.
