These homogenized cultural products are used to manipulate mass society into docility and passivity. Assertiveness training educates individuals in keeping balance between passivity and aggression. At times there is confusion and contradiction about nonviolence, harmlessness and passivity. Exoleti were characterized by effeminacy, sexual passivity, immorality, and an insatiable carnal appetite. It may involve elements of dominance and submission, passivity or obedience. A kind of keenly analytical passivity is his most typical attitude. This includes various distinctions of reflexivity, passivity, and causativity. Churchill had continued to bridle at Lucas' perceived passivity. The ideas within "marianismo" include those of feminine passivity and sexual purity. Even passivity was a form of resistance. Activity and passivity are an important polarity here. This abuse of power caused passivity on the local level. It increases the passivity of people who watch. Under that view passivity, not saying "No," is not consent. The finite I cannot be the ground of its own passivity.