ShaktiSama -> RE: MALE DOMS DISRESPECTING FEMALE DOMMES (2/22/2008 4:50:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse Though I don't really remember ever getting any dom-nastigrams, if I did/do......I promptly do one of two things. Laugh and thank them very much for the laughter or hit delete, and go merrily on about my day. I have received one or two of them, and generally I do the same thing. However, I am willing to admit that I not a professional domina, and I may not be as threatening to men as professional dominants are. And the fact that I have not experienced the exact same volume or violence of these emails does not mean that some other woman might not be having a different (and much worse) experience. I block people quite freely on this site, if they are nasty. And I do not receive nasty emails from male dominants on a regular basis. But if I did start to receive some of the psychoitc emails that I have seen in my inbox on a regular basis, from one man in particular or from many dominant men in general, I would damn sure say something about it. Especially if these emails were directed at me as a dominant woman in general--i.e., if they were more than just personally hateful, and rose to the point of being hatespeech against all dominant women. I'm sorry if you feel it is "weak" or "whiny" for a person to discuss these matters in public. Personally, I think it is a very smart thing to bring this issue up with other women who may have experienced the same sort of attack or who might offer insight or advice. I completely disagree that there is ANYTHING weak or whiny about bringing things like this up in public, nor do I think it means that the person who mentions it is "out of control" or "irresponsible". Just the opposite, in fact. I think it takes far more strength to talk about this than it takes to live in denial, or beat your chest and pretend to be tougher-than-thou, etc.. And it would actually be far MORE irresponsible not to bring it to the community. No one has the right to treat a woman this way simply because she is dominant. At any rate, trying to force people to suffer in silence by calling them names or attacking them for speaking out IS collaboration witth the abuser. And it is not right. Sick people do not have the right to corner any person they want in private and assault them, verbally or otherwise. And saying that this has happened is not "surrendering" to their abuse or "being infected by their disease". Just the opposite--it's an attack on the disease in the place where it lives, hides and breeds: the community itself. At any rate, I do not think people should leap on the victim and blame them for the bad and abusive behavior of others simply because they mention it. Silencing the complaint, and victimizing the victim, reinforces what the abuser does and declares his/her moral right to attack others at will. I think this is not a good thing. I just purely do not understand why this is such a difficult concept.
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