As Australian gender theorist Jamila Rosdahl puts it: "that men should be strong, aggressive and in control and women should be weak, passive and powerless".
He means the way that some weak, passive people manage to control others and steer events as effectively as those who try to dominate.
When presidents are reluctant to intervene, they are attacked by domestic and foreign adversaries as being weak, passive or "leading from behind".
(It's the way Scarlett describes Melanie in "Gone with the Wind"). He means the way that some weak, passive people manage to control others and steer events as effectively as those who try to dominate.
Because a never-beatable game will not succeed in a casino, the machine was programmed to occasionally play in a weak, passive style, seeming to reduce the game's edge and re-engaging casual players.
The old social contract, with a weak, passive middle class enriching itself while staying out of politics, cannot become an indefinite right to rule.A decade of economic growth has made Russia's middle class more numerous and more active.
