ShaktiSama
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To the OP: I am sorry I cannot answer your post in entirety. It is very long and I think it would be exhausting for anyone to even try to read a detailed response. To answer the questions you asked (with a few spelling corrections): 1. Do women (the ones who follow this ideology) truly want to be in this elevated status remembering that with elevated status comes elevated responsibilities. In the first place, I must point out that the existence of Female Supremacist "ideology" within this community is very, very debateable. As a person who has a professional interest in modes of human social organization, I assure you that the rhetoric, imagery and practice associated with Female Supremacy in the BDSM community do not qualify in any respect for the use of the term "ideology". Female Supremacy, as it exists in BDSM, is a fantasy. And it is a fantasy only. As such, it is attractive to a certain number of sadistic dominant women and masochistic submissive men. But there is no attempt or intention demonstrated by those who engage in this kind of roleplay to fundamentally re-organize society along matriarchal lines. Feminsim, by contrast, is in fact an ideology, which does represent an attempt to fundamentally re-organize society, and to eliminate the state of patriarchy which currently dominates most of the globe. As you point out, the overthrow of patriarchy will involve the elevation of women, and the exercise of power requires responsibility. However, no one is required to accept grave responsibilities when two or more people enjoy a pleasurable sexual fantasy. And since that is all Female Supremacy is, no assumption of real responsibility is required! Having made a distinction between feminism and female supremacy (as practiced in BDSM), I can safely point out the following: --Feminism and female supremacy are neither mutually exclusive nor automatically connected. You can easily be the one without being the other, or both, or neither. --Female sexual dominance is not automatically connected to either of the former two things. One can be a female dominant without being a feminist, or a female supremacist. Or one can be any combination of the three things. --From my perspective, the vast majority of female supremacists are not in fact feminists. Female supremacy, as a fantasy, actually plays quite well into patriarchal ideology, in that it represents a terrifying vision which demonizes women and female exercise of power. Female supremacist rhetoric seems to be large based on the model of white supremacist rhetoric and patriarchal misogynist rhetoric--it is constructed to be a parody of autocratic, abusive authority. 2. Is it truly satisfing to female supremacist to be submitted to? Since there are probably no women here who are heavily into this particular fantasy roleplay form, I will assume that the question has been thrown open to all female dominants and answer it. Answer: yes. I find it deeply satisfying in many ways--emotional, sexual, spiritual, etc.--to receive submission. The tendency toward dominance as a personality trait is probably distributed pretty evenly between men and women in the general population. As you point out in your post, however, dominance as a personal inclination is very different from dominance as a socially prescribed role--in many cases, dominance as a social role is thrust upon people who do not enjoy it (men like your father) and denied to those who do enjoy it (women like Joan of Arc).
< Message edited by ShaktiSama -- 2/5/2008 6:51:18 PM >
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." -- Robert A. Heinlein
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