Possible Clues:

• Unwilling to compromise
• Strict
• __ transformation; in geometry this maintains the distance between every pair of points
• Inflexible and unresponsive? That's not feminine
• Standing to attention, free soldier inside
• So to get ready to sail I'd be a big stiff
• Stiff and unemotional female getting dumped
• Boardlike
• Intolerant
• Stiff and cold with top removed