This is totally an observation: Not a critique'. i guess it has changed. Never thought it would, but it did. Seems to me, that Dommes' are not as aggressive as They used to be. May i quote Websters' dictionary?
Main Entry: dom·i·nant
Pronunciation: -n&nt
Function: adjective
1 :  Exercising the most influence or control.
2 : exerting forcefulness or having dominance  in a social hierarchy
3 : being the one of a pair of bodily structures that is the more effective or predominant in action 
4 : of, relating to, or exerting genetic dominance—dom·i·nant·ly adverb Source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

Ain't that way no more....