Sentences with phrase «men assert their dominance»

And because these strategies are an exaggerated version of the traditional courtship script (featuring the male as the sexual initiator and the female as the sexual gatekeeper), it also makes sense that individuals with sexist attitudes would be more drawn to initiation strategies in which men assert their dominance.

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It also asserts that the companies relied on advertising, with messages of combat dominance and slogans like «Consider your man card reissued,» that appealed specifically to disturbed young men like Adam Lanza, the 20 - year - old gunman.

This creates an environment where women supposedly need men in their life to assert dominance over them, which easily creates a culture of abuse acceptance.

The cast themselves are exceptional to a man, playing off one another superbly as the stronger personas assert their dominance, brushing aside the weaker characters like feathers in the wind.

As a feminist, I fear this moment's overt reversion to the most blatant forms of patriarchy — a great moment for so - called «real men,» like football players and politicians, to assert their sinister dominance over «others,» primarily women and people of color — the return of the barely repressed.

The physical space of the village is redrawn by the presence of the white men who assert their dominance over the village, leaving the women alienated and disempowered within their own cultural space.