chellekitty -> RE: hi, my name is chelle, and i am a flirt... (3/30/2008 1:30:14 PM)
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ok, so here are my thoughts on it, like i promised, but please keep in mind that these are the thoughts of someone who over analyzes things, even to the point of over analyzing the fact that she over analyzes things...and someone who is more interested in sociological trends than psychological patterns, and while both are general, the former is that of a group and the latter is that of individuals...so when you look at my assesment of the scene....which, btw, is what i am basing my assesment of lifestyle people on, but i still see the same trends of the scene practiced by lifestyle people outside of the scene...lifestyle people - people who engage on any level in BDSM (and all that falls under that umbrella) and recognize it as BDSM (much like you can't decide for another person when they are or are not an addict, you can't decide for another person when they are or are not lifestyle, sorry to any who are offended by this comparisson, call your sponsor [:D])...and the scene - social gatherings where lifestyle people enteract with other lifestyle people, this is growing to controversially include the online scene...umm what was i saying? oh yea, so when you look at my assesment of the scene and as a result the people in the lifestyle by representative sampling, there will always be exceptions...the trends are much more of a how the forest is doing, how the ocean is flowing kind of thing... so here i go... quote:
anyway...this got me to thinking...is there a level of flirty-ness acceptable for men vs women in this lifestyle? or is it submissives vs dominants? does single vs in a relationship make a difference? is there i only so much societal influence can do before instinct takes over, especially in regards to dominance structure? single men at lifestyle gatherings, scene events who are flirting, whether they be Top or bottom (and please, for the sake of my fingers, just consider me to be saying Top including anything like Master/Mistress/Dom/Domme/Owner/etc with the only exceptions being of gender, and bottom including anything like submissive/slave/pet/girl/boy/etc.) to be trolls...perhaps with the ocassional anomaly of an individual well know for something that gets away with it...but on average most single men are automatically trolls unless they mind their p's and q's to the t and are on their best behavior... single women on the other hand are prized objects - and yes they are objectified by their mere existence of being single and female and if they are bisexual, watch out - that are not in the least bit chastized for flirting...infact it is highly encouraged for them to have their dance cards filled out by multiple people (they are not the only ones though) or to flit from table to table getting men riled up...nothing is thought twice of that... taken bottoms in power exchange relationships, as others have noted are generally not allowed to be flirty with others, it is often seen as disrespectful to the Top they are in relationships with or that the bottom should not have any time to flirt with anyone else because all their attention should be devoted to thier Top....there may be on ocassion a Top who likes for their bottom to go get the others riled up and then take their bottoms home at the envy of all the others...from what i have seen, this is most common in Male Top relationships, whether they be gay or straight... taken Tops in power exchange relationships seem to be with the single women here, whether they are monogamous or poly, in that they can flirt - to a point - with who ever they want, because "they know their boundaries" and here is my orientation bias coming out, but they apparently have no need to give equal attention or respect to their partners (or perhaps that is me wanting things to be fair in a relationship...damn my mother and her bra burning ways)... but back to looking at things from a sociological point of view...by virtue of participating in power exchage relationships we have to do things a bit differently when we are in said power exchange relationships...if you look at heirarchial animals (sorry, we are not that different) you will note that there are not two Dominant Alpha's of the same level of Dominance...if there happens to be two in one group/pack/whatever either one is killed by the other or one leaves...there is only room for one at the top...so who do bottoms attract when they flirt? Tops...and that disrupts the balance of power...so perhaps things happen the way they do in order for them to stay balanced as best they can... or maybe i just think too much.... chelle edited to add: to those of you who were concerned about my innocent, asking of how that guy's week had gone....the previous week we had discussed ways to get through the no relationships for the first year thing, and how i got through it....i guess that is exciting for a guy?
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