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" Sweet smell of Submission", by Erik Pevernagie, oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm

Many women are strong defendants of emancipation and equality, and some men are helping them in their cause. But sometimes, there seems to be a contradictory pattern in the behavior of some groups of women, as they show an agreeable acceptance of submission.

Some men will say, then, that if you take away suffering from them, you take away the one thing where they can be really grandiose, noble, and magnanimous. Florence Nightingale could be a lighting example.

In their relationship, some women like to develop a secret self-destructive dependence on being needed. They invest obsessively in benevolent care and total devotedness to people who are physically or mentally unstable.

The only thing they want might be to feel needed or to be indispensable. Men, who haven’t grown up, remaining mentally little kids, and addicted or socially deviant characters, can give them sense to their life and grant them a mission they can fight for.

To be able to fulfill the self-imposed and addictive task, they are ready to submit to any random actions, which allows them to enjoy a sweet smell of total submission.

Phenomenon: Submission and emancipation