PeonForHer
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ORIGINAL: Lockit I totally ignore men who tell me I am superior to them. I am dominant, not superior. They are submissive and in my mind not less than I am, only different. For me, being a sub is always a two-part thing In the context of a more fundamental equality between myself and a partner, some sense of her being 'superior' is certainly something that I'd want to access and even 'live in', as much as I could. I'm not sure it's possible to submit without a feeling of inferiority - of a particular sort, note - to go with it. (Or perhaps that's only true of me. Sometimes I think I understand how dominants tick better than I understand how other subs tick! ) For me, from a position of equality, a sub chooses to submit, or be inferior (whatever), to his partner. But he's not in a position to make that choice unless he's equal to start with. That's the paradox of being a sub: he'll need both bits - the equal and the unequal - for it to work. Or to put it another way: I've heard from someone who'd looked at a sub's blog that what subs get off on is the unfairness of it. That made sense to me - the word 'unfairness' pretty much encapsulates it for me, too. I'd ask: what is the bit that's saying "this is unfair"? How can they even know that it's unfair without a part of them having a strong sense of what is fair? I remember, when I was a kid, getting alternately turned on by, then feel resentful of, the feeling of being of less worth to the girls about whom I fantasised. There were periods when I'd think "Why don't you just accept it - you are inferior". But those periods came to an end because I realised that that belief didn't make any logical sense. 'She' - the adored girl - may seem like a goddess, and I'd yearn for her to use that power over me - but she still cries occasionally, has hang-ups, gets spots, fails her exams, ballses things up . . . I think maturity, for many people, means accepting that you're either 'one thing or the other'. To my mind this is utterly wrong. To quote my favourite sig line, SthrnCmfrt's: 'The sign of a developed mind is one in which two opposing ideas can coexist' (Oscar Wilde).
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