Man I'm I'm interested in says he's into girls that will "put him in his place"

There's this guy in my friend group that I've been interested in. He seems extremely masculine, ambitious, and assertive. He's handsome, fit, and pretty traditional. However, when we were all talking about what we want in the people we date, he said he wants a girl who will put him in his place and isn't submissive. I thought that RP theory suggested that most men, especially the ones who were "alpha," were much more inclined to liking women who were opposite of them - namely those who were submissive. Is this a case of male hamstering, where the things men say they want are actually different from what they actually want (like when women say they want a man who will coddle them and treat them like princesses but actually recoil when men treat them too well too soon), or should I stop trying to be so submissive around him?