VvShadowspawnvV
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This topic always seems kinda funny to me. I understand not wanting to call some stranger "Master", but the guy at McDonalds the other day called me "sir"... it really wasn't that big a deal. Like you have mentioned, it used to be simple manners, but it BDSM circles it has become an exalted title. What if someone who has been knighted, like Sir Elton John, who actually has the right to expect use of the term (at least in England), wanted you to call him Sir? Someone who holds higher military rank? It can get a little silly, I think, since the term has been borrowed from the Vanilla world and the definition changed to suit our purposes. If someone wants you to call them sir, and it really bugs you could always use "sir and Sir" as a distinction, or borrow from the Goreans and use "sir and My Sir" since so many subs use that already anyway, and then you can differentiate and appear polite at the same time. *wink* Of course if you belong to someone who forbids it, that is an entirely different can of worms. I don't require it from strangers, or have my girl do it with strangers, but I also don't really see it as such a big deal. If someone contacts me and calls me "sir", I don't look down on them for it, I just figure they are more polite than most people these days. Unless they are Gorean, though, the whole "Master" thing is a little different IMO... Just throwing my 2c out there since pennies aren't worth anything anyway... not like I really expect to change the world. (Before someone accuses me of trying).
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -Robert E. Howard
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