RRafe
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ORIGINAL: hardbodysub I was given a name by a domme who informed me that it was "customary" for masters and mistresses to choose names for their subs. I hated the name. It didn't fit me at all, and I couldn't identify with it. The very act of her giving it to me because it was "customary" was one more straw in the bundle that eventually broke the back of that relationship. It was just another piece of evidence that she was doing what she had learned dominants were supposed to do, rather than thinking and acting for herself, of her own volition. I wouldn't have minded if it was a name that I could have identified with, if I felt that it fit me in some way, but instead I thought it sucked, and every time she used it, it just pissed me off. Rather than make me feel more submissive, it made me feel more rebellious. I keep saying this, over and over. Pat use of other people's rituals and protocols are a lazy way to Dom. It's stupid, and cop out, and won't gain you any respect. Subs are individuals-they enjoy and appreciate individual attention. They are not bits of play dough that one can slap around, stuff into a "mold" and have come out any old way you desire. They need to be treated as something of value-even if that value happens to be being used as an object. Think seriously on that, when you think of granting a "name"..It has to mean something to BOTH of you-not just unilaterally.
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