Short monologue contrasting assertive, passive, and aggressive communication. The speaker defines passive behavior as quiet compliance that can lead to unintended resentment, defines aggressive behavior as using yelling or bullying to force one's voice while making others feel wrong, and emphasizes that assertiveness is distinct from aggression.
Being assertive is not the same as being aggressive. People who are passive usually don't say much, or they go along with whatever the group wants to do. But even over time, they might begin to feel resentful that they. Even though they've chosen not to have a voice in something, but it really can end up being a submissive stance that they didn't intend to keep. Or you have people on the other side who are aggressive that somewhere in their experiences they learned that the only way for me to have a voice is that I'm going to yell and I'm going to be more of a bully in my form of communication, and I'm going to make sure that not only are my thoughts and feelings expressed, but that really in doing so or the manner in which I do it is going to make the other person feel like they're wrong. That everything that you're wrong, you're stupid, you're this, you're that. And so I think that you that really, when it comes to identifying these behaviors, that some of them become very clear.
