Eliezer clearly chose his subject line to sting-- "paralyzed subordinate" is insulting, and "monkey" is lower status than the more accurate "ape".
That' being said, his post wasn't about gender. Your reply was.
My reply was about applying the motivation positively, rather than as an excuse. You appear to be complaining that I expended insufficient effort in ensuring that these insulting labels extended to females as well as males.
Something I missed on the first pass was that "supplicating" is a fairly rare word-- except in a PUA context.
I can understand you associating 'pussy' with PUA style context. At very least "quit being a pussy" is far more likely to be used as an encouraging exhortation in a male locker room than a female locker room. But you are trying now to declare a word that is more properly a religious term to be a PUA term.
Supplication is doing something-- it isn't the sort of paralysis Eliezer was talking about.
Supplication works fine, in some of the cases at least. But now that you mention it if I was to actually use PUA jargon I would say "DLV" - which seems to catch the meaning of the behaviour perfectly. And the proper use "DLV"s is actually a life saving (or nowadays a 'job saving') skill to develop (although seldom useful when applying PUA).
During a discussion today about the bizarre "can't get crap done" phenomenon that afflicts large fractions of our community, the suggestion came up that most people can't do anything where there is a perceived choice that includes the null option / "do nothing" as an option. Of which Michael Vassar made the following observation:
And if you're not the leader, it is not good for your reproductive fitness to act like one. In modern times the penalties for standing up are much lower, but our instincts haven't updated.
Interesting to reconsider the events of "To lead, you must stand up" in this light. It makes more sense if you read it as "None of those people had instincts saying it was a good idea to declare themselves the leader of the monkey tribe, in order to solve this particular coordination problem where 'do nothing' felt like a viable option" instead of "nobody had the initiative".