I was talking to a lesbian ESI-Se the other day about Se and aggression. She's 26, weighs about 130, is in perfect health and is an ex-Lacrosse player and she teaches self-defense classes for women.
I was comparing her Se to my own (Hers is better) and to that of an SLE I've hired to do some work for me. The SLE spent ten years in prison for armed robbery, lifting weights and he now has the dead eyes of a killer, but he's basically a pretty typical SLE-Se otherwise. I told her that his Se is so strong that he'd wipe the floor with her.
"I don't know," she said. "I think I could take him."
Lol. Supervision is so good at overestimating one's position and devaluing the Supervisee's.
In any case, the conversation moved on to erotic attitudes. I thought that she, as an aggressor, would be aggressive in her romantic relationships. But she said no, she prefers to let the other woman approach her.
Let me say that she often looks like an SEE, but if you are around her enough, you can see that she's really an introvert. At least, I see this.
I said to her, "Really? In your relationships, who is it that does the approaching?" I was trying to get her to say that she did, but she paused to think about it.
She finally replied, "It's very self-affirming to be approached. It does away with all doubts."
And I actually do think that other women approach her. She displays herself as a model of health and beauty and strength, and I've seen how some women look at her. Yes, they approach first.
I guess this is a clue for how I should approach ESIs.
As the Erotic Attitudes article says, LIEs are Aggressors in Life and Victims in romance, and of the four Aggressor-Victim Duals, the ESI-LIE duality is the most evenly matched for aggression. The duality is kind of Switch, I'd say.*
I've been pretty neutral with ESIs so far, but it seems as if that is not what my Duals are looking for. Instead, they appear to place themselves in front of me, say "How can you possibly resist all this?", and want me to make the first move.
*I'd say that the difference in Aggression-Victimhood goes as follows: (SLE-----|-----IEI), (SEE---|---ILI), (LSI--|--EIE), and (ESI-|-LIE).