Successful Women Can't Be Submissive - adelani1310948

A discussion about women’s success took a troubling turn after a poster argued that successful women have long existed and that men are not inherently threatened by them. In response, one controversial comment claimed: “It’s because most successful women are hard to be controlled, too stubborn, can’t be submissive…”

This statement unfairly paints successful women in a negative light and equates independence with disobedience. Success does not make a woman “uncontrollable”; it reflects competence, discipline, and self-agency. Labeling confidence as stubbornness is a tactic often used to police women’s autonomy and reinforce outdated gender roles. Partnership is not about control or forced submission, but mutual respect and cooperation. Framing successful women as a problem shifts the issue away from personal insecurity and societal expectations, and instead stigmatizes achievement. Such narratives discourage progress and normalize resentment toward women who refuse to shrink themselves.