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ORIGINAL: akisha

Why would you assume that most women are subs?  Blanket statements as such are going to result in some heavy backlash so be warned.

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ORIGINAL: akisha

Why would you assume that most women are subs?  Blanket statements as such are going to result in some heavy backlash so be warned.

But to answer your question with a plausable answer is thus.  Thousands of years of conditioning that men are the head of household and are superior verses less then a 100 years of acknowledgement of equality.

Pretty simple to figure out if you ask me.

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ORIGINAL: Rover

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ORIGINAL: akisha

Why would you assume that most women are subs?  Blanket statements as such are going to result in some heavy backlash so be warned.

According to the statistics compiled by Trevor Jacques, most women in the lifestyle are indeed submissives.  In fact, they comprise the largest segment of the BDSM community.

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ORIGINAL: akisha

That may be true and I'm not disputing it. I'm saying that there are alot of female dominants as well and some ppl are going to take offence to such a statement.

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

Most women in the life may be subs, but that's a far cry from saying that most women are subs.  Most women are vanilla.

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ORIGINAL: Rover

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

Most women in the life may be subs, but that's a far cry from saying that most women are subs.  Most women are vanilla.

That would be an entirely different question, and one not asked by the OP.  But in reply it would seem to me that  you'd be quite correct.
 
John

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ORIGINAL: Celeste43

Actually my best guess is because women in their day to day lives have huge amounts of responsibility. They hold full time jobs, do the majority of house hold work including thinking about what needs to be done, and the majority of work involved in raising offspring. Men may coach the soccer game and one practice weekly, but mothers are checking backpacks and packing lunches plus overseeing homework, settling sibling rivalry etc. Have an elderly parent? Care usually devolves among the daughters, not the sons.

When your responsibility load is off the scale, letting someone else make all the decisions is like a vacation.

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ORIGINAL: wickedteach

Interesting question and one which i disagree with lol Or perhaps it is just in a certain area that i could disagree with it. I have found it interesting that at the various clubs i have attended and munches there seems to be a predominance of Dommes and male subs. Perhaps it is just the places i have been  rather then a natural trend and others will reassure me that i am wrong?

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ORIGINAL: Dnomyar

I think the reason you see more women subs is that a lot of the men are still in the closet. I had a local yahoo group once on closet bi's. I was surprised by the number of men who joined it.

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ORIGINAL: akisha

Why would you assume that most women are subs?  Blanket statements as such are going to result in some heavy backlash so be warned.

But to answer your question with a plausable answer is thus.  Thousands of years of conditioning that men are the head of household and are superior verses less then a 100 years of acknowledgement of equality.

Pretty simple to figure out if you ask me.

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

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ORIGINAL: akisha

Why would you assume that most women are subs?  Blanket statements as such are going to result in some heavy backlash so be warned.

But to answer your question with a plausable answer is thus.  Thousands of years of conditioning that men are the head of household and are superior verses less then a 100 years of acknowledgement of equality.

Pretty simple to figure out if you ask me.

I don't think you can blame conditioning.  The women of my generation grew up with the message that they were equal to males, capable of doing anything a man could do, were just as intelligent as any given male, deserving of equal pay for equal work, etc., etc..  Yet many of those women are submissive.  Is it conditioning or a subconscious desire to return somewhat to the household of their youth wherein Dad was the one "holding the power", as it were?  The males of my generation grew up with these same messages, from all directions, except maybe from older relatives.  Yet many of us are dominants who believe that there is room for one leader in a relationship and two partners, that there does indeed need to be a decison-maker in the house who makes his decisions after communication, etc., etc..  Is that conditioning or is it a desire to escape from the more radical elements of feminism that decry men as being the cause of all of society's evils or is it a desire to return to the more traditional household of their youth? 

I'll grant you that some male dominant/female submissive dynamics may be set up on the "male superior - female inferior model" but I find the belief that it is the majority somewhat dubious, given the dearth of profile statements belonging to male dominants stating that they believe in "male supremacy" as compared to the number of profile statements of female dominants claiming their belief in "female supremacy".