akbarbarian -> RE: Being loyal to your word (7/12/2007 6:45:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: akbarbarian In the words of Petruchio, as rendered in the BBC version, cluck...cluck...cluck...squaaaaawk! Seriously, one man's train wreck is another man's...train salvage yard? Just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean it doesn't work for the next person. I realize that 50 people might not agree with what I identify as a mistake, but I don't live my life by committee. Suggestions were welcome as I was sorting things out, and now that time is done. If you can't figure out what mistake I made, that I learned, and publically acknowleged it, you may as well move on...or keep squawking. I did, that's why I posted about the obedience collar. Some things I rally for may not be Jodi's thing, but I can see what a charge she gets out of it no pun intended. So open the minds, or keep squawking it's up to you. It's fun to rally and rag on someone, and it's fun to rally and cheer someone, but have some individuality people. If this is the case why do we even have education? Why do we talk about this at all? Why do we try to delineate what is abusive and what isn't? (I believe abuse is anything that makes the acted on party feel shitty and downtrodden and fearful rather than liberated and peaceful and themselves and comfortable...hm- and I don't mean that that is always pretty to watch or easy for them to do, I'm talking about ends-based thinking) Why even ask anyone for an opinion if you are going to deride people for squawking and being oooo so hidebound and vanilla in comparison to your mighty Masterdom? Why does anyone care what anyone thinks, especially people who may have more experience than you do? People with seventeen years of it? (KoM, is that right?) I so don't get it. I like to think Madrabbit is giving an opinion and not a synopsis, but... Abuse is what every S&M club in the US hosts, which is why the police are kept out because they are required by law to throw your ass in jail if they witness "consentual S&M" or kink. "Oh that's not abuse", or "oh that's how you justify your abusiveness" is the response? It's not about justifying it, it's about how you define it. Only Jodi can define if she is being abused or not, neither you nor I have the godlike nature to make that sort of judgement better than she herself can with the possible exception of a trained therapist which I certainly would not keep her from seeing at any time (unless I had a b-day party to go to, wink wink). Oh, I well realize that those who are unhappy may stay in a relationship even though it is unhealthy, but I can tell you that if she is unhappy that will bother me too and if she didn't want therapy I'd insist somthing needed to be done. There isn't anything special about me being Masterly or whatever. I do however think there is somthing special if 50 people say "we all agree you are wrong so you are an idiot if you value your own judgement above our consensus". I did mention that in all, the views of those on this thread, yours included helped me sort out my shit if you recall, but I in no way represented any claim to do what people told me to I simply considered many things and arrived at my conclusion.
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