The exhibition describes this look as expressive of her humility, though another word for it would be submissive; it evokes the age-old notion that a woman's direct gaze is impure.And though the exhibit takes pains to represent Mary as "a protagonist in her own rich life story", the images underscore the sense in which her story is marked, above all, by lack of agency.
HuffPost asked him if he thought it was appropriate and fair for a question to be asked of his wife in the debate Thursday night about whether she would be "submissive" to him, her husband, if she were president.
Essentially, the data showed that crappy players were more likely to be hostile toward a woman, particularly when they were losing, and that in a similar situation with the male control player, they'd be "submissive".
Rudd says if we lived by the rules of the bible then wives would still be submissive to their husbands.
Once, Michele Bachmann, for example, was asked during a debate, "As president, would you be submissive to your husband?" People automatically assume that a Christian female President isn't capable of making decisions without her spouse's stamp of approval.
Brazilian nationalists also supported the move, because it indicated that Brazil would no longer be submissive to the interests of Portugal, but would be of equal status within a transatlantic monarchy.
While public opinion is that Lib Dems would be "boring", "submissive" and "gentle", the survey shows that they're relatively, well, liberal; "erotic massages", "orgies" and "sex with transexuals" all came out top on the Lib Dem list.
He didn't have to be violent, just more forceful than I was ― which wasn't difficult to do since I'd been raised to be submissive for just these moments.
Wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.' As president, would you be submissive to your husband?" Bachmann seemed momentarily flummoxed by York's question, but her silence only highlighted the anger at York in the audience.
The still complicit willingness to be submissive to a boy's desire isn't what I had hoped would be a benefit of the sexual revolution.
And I would think that many women today, homosexual and heterosexual alike, may find difficulty in Ephesians 5 22: "Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as to the Lord.
