Aswad
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ORIGINAL: MISTRESSKUMA
And in reference to your comment to the Gorean guy Aswad, I found it suspect and VERY telling that he answered this post in the women's section.
Yes, it is very telling: it tells that I read the scroller at the top of the page.
And it tells long-timers that I still care about women's rights issues, and still disdain men who are afraid of women and overcompensate by harping on them. Dominant women might not always make viable life partners for dominant men, but they usually make some of the best female friends that a dominant man can have, exactly because dominant people tend not to register as potential mates for each other, so there is no tension or ambiguity there, to say nothing of the value of sharing disposition and/or interests. Really, there are women I'd be honored to number among my friends, if I lived close enough to them to do so.
Najakcharmer, for instance, is a woman I would have been honored to number among my friends.
And she happens to hold the deep and well-earned respect of essentially every man of substance on the Gorean part of the boards, by the way, so I'm not at all sure why it should matter that my views on morals, values and so forth happen to be more congruent to the Gorean ones than to the Western mainstream. If anything, I should have a clue or two as to how men think, and a certain inside perspective on men that I find it hard to believe that you share, although I'm open to all possibilities. It's not as if I'm accusing you of being a puritan, or an oppressor, or a right-wing religious nut, despite you being American. Perhaps some people don't fit the stereotypes, and perhaps some stereotypes aren't all that accurate in the first place.
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Anyone with a brain can tell he is the type of man this thread is about.
The one with a Y-chromosome? 
I believe there are more germaine examples to draw lessons from in this thread.
Anyway, what the men in your life have done to you in order to provide you with such a negative view of men, and the ability to generalize it while blatantly discounting the available evidence, I do not know. What I do know, however, is that I have never met you, never harmed or hurt you, and whatever respect or lack thereof you may or may not hold is based on your behavior alone. Consequently, you might want to rethink the role you are casting me in, particularly as I have offered an offline character witness, along with noting one femdom who is more familiar with my posting than you are. I have nothing to hide, and only have something to prove insofar as it is relevant to attempting to motivate those who discount what I say on the basis of my gender to consider the possibility that my gender may not render me incapable of making a well reasoned argument or holding positive values.
Repeating the mistakes of the past is not going to help anyone, after all.
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Some men really feel inferior towards women.
And some people feel the need to polarize an issue along the axis of a false dichotomy.
Superiority and inferiority are meaningless concepts without qualifiers. There are undoubtedly areas where you are superior to me, and there are undoubtedly areas where I am superior to you. This does not imply that either one of us is superior or inferior to the other overall. Which is one of the aspects of my value system which is frequently overlooked by those who are not familiar with it: judging based on individual merit in a given situation. To use a concrete example, your knowledge of what discrimination you experience in your life is undoubtedly superior to mine. At the same time, my knowledge of what goes on in the heads of some of the men who cause you to feel that way is undoubtedly superior to yours. Using both pieces of information allows the interaction between me and you to be constructive, while discounting what the other party says based on notions of gender supremacy or gender inferiority will serve no constructive purpose.
You stand to benefit far more from my perspective than I stand to benefit from yours, seeing as you are the party experiencing discrimination, so it escapes me what you believe you stand to benefit from dismissing my perspective, rather than questioning it, arguing with it or considering it. Until you do, or moderate your view of me, I have no reason to interact further with you on this thread, and would respectfully ask that you accord me the same courtesy.
Health,
al-Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind.
From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way.
We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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