missbratly
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ORIGINAL: Focus50 Calling yourself a slave when you're unowned is kinda like calling yourself a wife when you're not married.... And I disagree. Well shoot, if I'd known that from the get-go I wouldn't have had to bother with my previous two posts.... Focus. Hey, I know, let's turn what should have been a straightforward (totally unrelated) question into an aeons long argument over semantics. People use the terms differently. Some people treat the terms 'slave' and 'Master' almost like verbs, implying that there needs to be some sort of action in order for these terms to be used correctly. Others use them more as passive nouns, describing a state which exists whether it is active or not. Taken to the logical extreme, one could argue that one is only a Master when one's slave is in the room, and vice versa, otherwise, if one is alone on a beach, and there is no-one around to Master, the chappy turns into a mere Dom, until such time as a submissive comes along and assumes the role of slave. Or, at the other end of the spectrum, one can be a three day old Master - sure, no control over basic bodily functions, or even an awareness of being an individual entity, but nevertheless, wired for Mastery. I jest of course, because what this really is, once again, is one person (or persons) trying to tell another person (or persons) what they can and can't be, and what they can and can't call themselves. Why these people care how others refer to themselves is quite beyond me. You're arguing over a submissive calling herself a slave when there are women wandering around quite seriously referring to themselves as Goddesses!? Where will the madness end!
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