By making him look like a bastard for kicking her in the teeth any time she bows down?
Hmm? I must have missed the scene. But I *do* remember him gently raising her up to her feet. I suppose you read this as him dominating her, or her being unable to stand up for herself-- I, on the contrary, felt the message he was trying to give her was that he respected her and (while he wasn't going to dispell her belief in his demigod status) that she should address him without undue deference and ceremony. I don't know how she acted around her own people, but the fact she *didn't* contact anyone else for 'what do I do now' seems to indicate that, when not in the presence of the Prophecized One, she is quite the boss of herself. Please bear in mind, he is a religious figure to her. It is not necessarily any more embarrassing for her to kneel before him than for a Wiccan to make a shrine to the Goddess.