Philosopher Stephen Mulhall has remarked that the four Alien films represent an artistic rendering of the difficulties faced by the woman's "voice" to have itself heard in a masculinist society, as Ripley continually encounters males who try to silence her and to force her to submit to their desires.
Only 10 percent of women 65 and older were willing to "submit to every desire of their partners," compared with 26 percent of women under 25.
Monteverdi's "Ballo Delle Ingrate" ("Dance of the Ungrateful Women") offers an objectionable prefeminist moral: women should submit to male desire or face eternal damnation.
"As Leo Tolstoy said, "When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her".
Knowles was more concerned with pleasing her record label by submitting to their desires.
Questions included whether they had played sexual games of domination and submission (including spanking, blindfolding, handcuffing, scratching and biting); whether they used sex toys or had sex in a public place or in a libertine club; and to what extent they would submit to a partner's sexual desires and whether they would do so to keep him.
Questions included whether they had played sexual games of domination and submission (including spanking, blindfolding, handcuffing, scratching and biting); whether they used sex toys or had sex in a public place or in a libertine club; and to what extent would they submit to a partner's sexual desires, and would they do so to keep him?
Unlike ideas or even simple wishes, desires rarely submit to the discipline of reason.
It's the desire to submit to someone.
We are not always weak, or subservient, or vacant, and we don't always live our lives with a strong desire to submit to the nearest patriarch.
Ukraine will never submit to the level of control that Russia desires, they say.
