Devor firmly notes that the dominant gender schema is controlled by men, meaning that personal characteristics that describe men as aggressive, bossy, and intimidating qualify them to have high status. Women, as a secondary sex, are recognized as passive, vulnerable and caring. Sabo addresses the notion of gender schema by using his personal experiences to illustrate his urgency to achieve power by dominating his opponents, primarily through intermale domination. This concept of gender schema can be described in terms of “survival of the fittest”. Dictionary.com defines this phrase as: "A 19th-century concept of human society, inspired by the principle of natural selection, positing that those who are eliminated in the struggle for existence are the unfit." » In this case, the woman is considered weak and as prey for the man who is the predator. The man is then glorified for his strength and his ability to act on the distancing or degradation of a woman, who is then scorned for allowing her femininity to prevent her from being dominant. Femininity in Sabo and Devor's text is emphasized as a weak point in men, making men not masculine enough and thus establishing the process of elimination.