Something I missed on the first pass was that "supplicating" is a fairly rare word-- except in a PUA context.

PUA deals extensively with motivating males and status analysis. I think its not controversial to say that they do pretty ok at producing usable rules of thumb on those topics. Using their perspective to analyse the difference in impact of status loaded language on males and females seems reasonable, as long as one controls for their systemic bias.

I'm not sure wedrifid was doing that, but if he had it would have been perfectly acceptable.