i’m not getting your distinction between dominant and submissive, though. what are your criteria? i see a shower as being more dominant than public transit. i can choose my seat, choose my route, choose, in fact, my usage and purpose (to travel, to feel movement, to people watch, to have a quiet time to read, etc.) on public transit, but i can only do one thing, one way, in a shower. the shower forces me to stand in a particular space and hold my body in a particular way. it even punishes me if i hold my body wrong (water up my nose if i lean down too far).

or are these categories entirely subjective?