CaringandReal
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ORIGINAL: barelynangel Actually if you look at my posts i don't passify women who post here whining how mean their dom was to them and looking for people to castrate the guy despite her own behavior. So you really might want to reread my posts. it seems MOST people especially a lot of the women turn things around in a situation wherein a WOMAN CLEARLY STATES she fucked up and somehow make anything and everything wrong was the guys fault lol its utterly amazing at how many women love allowing the woman to be the victim even when she does the wrong thing. As i said, it seems many simply enjoy trying to castrate men on this board no matter what, if a Man is part of the issue a woman is having he will somehow be at fault. Its utterly amazing to me. angel It doesn't amaze me...anymore. But I've been watching with close interest this tendency in contemporary feminine culture grow and (I hate to use this word for something so ugly) "blossom" over the last couple of decades (well, maybe a bit longer than that ;) ). It's fed a lot by popular culture. Those television shows, for instance, where the man is so frequently painted either as a evil moral-less wretch or a bumbling idiot with the sense of a very stupid dog, useful only for female amusement, are particularly odious. You make a good point and I have observed it too, here and in many other places: if it was done by a woman it's Ok, even cool, because she is a frail well-meaning angel with with emotional issues or other weaknesses that totally excuse the bad behavior or even elevate it to something high and noble. If the same thing is done by a man, however, he's terribly evil, there's no excuse, he should have known better than... etc. This angelicizing of women and their motives was originally a very conscious and deliberate part of the feminist movement's agenda. It started with the whole "female as vicitm" concept. Once that was fairly well accepted, the groundwork was laid for further deification: the woman as suffering saint who puts up with the evil beastly man myth. To me, the real politik of all of this is the very basic "I have the pussy so I have the power" attitude that is so prevelent among women these days. "You want to fuck me? Then admit I shit gold while you shit ordinary poop...and while you're at it, kiss my golden ass." What our mainstream culture does with gender roles (while they might weaken a female dominant's credibility in some ways) is a serious issue for submissive women. If we bring these "woman as delicate innocent flower" attitudes and expectations into bdsm relationships, where something very different is expected by ourselves and by our partners, it can cause confusion and disrupt the establishment of the power exchange that both parties claim to want. The way it often plays itself out in maledom/femsub relationships is in the sphere of responsibility: he's in charge, so he's totally responsible for thinking of everything, making sure he is perfectly clear in all communications andorders, does not assume anything about her, accounts for all possible problems and contingencies. And then, only then, if she doesn't obey, is she in the wrong. Otherwise it's all his fault. That attitude doesn't give enough credit to the idea that submissive women can be responsible, they can act like adults at times (even if they want to be children), they can do hard things when necessary.
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