Aswad -> RE: Is it right for daughters (12/25/2009 1:45:22 AM)
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer This is exposing kink to others who are no part of it - at least one of whom is a minor, too. FFS... they're growing up in a household where that's the situation... Amish kids see Amish values, Jewish kids see Jewish values, Atheist kids see Atheist values. Engineer kids learn to think as engineers. Teaching kids about sports shapes them. Teaching them about music shapes them. Not teaching them about these things shapes them. Kids are bound to learn the bulk of their values from their peers and their home environment while growing up. Making it seem like mom and dad (or mom and the butler, whatever) are doing something wrong and need to hide it... that's just a recipe for trauma. Shielding kids from reality is a great disservice, thoroughly dishonest and somewhat incapacitating. That said, putting a female supremacy slant on their upbringing is a pretty sheltered view. In the real world, men are still overall the most aggressive, most competitive and most highly achieving (in terms of work, anyway). Going out there with an expectation that men are, overall, inherently wired to consider women's needs over their own (a trait that has been demonstrated to be very much expressed in women across cultures, and almost unheard of in men, considered at a statistical level) is setting them up for some very rude awakenings, and possibly some very dangerous ones (men are still in the lead as predators, too, and this kind of attitude in one who isn't wired to pull it off is a dead giveaway of easy prey). Men don't, overall, consider anyone but themselves and the people they feel responsible for. This is evident in how they resolve conflicts, already as children. Women, overall, take into account multiple people's needs and perspectives, and tend to yield to pressure. Again, evident as children, and all too commonly a source of mutual frustration at work. Men are generally hardwired to have a significant limbic response to conquest of any sort, a wiring which is absent in women; as such, men have a hardwired behavioral reinforcer on conquest oriented behavior which women lack. They can learn to pursue conquest, and even to enjoy it as much as men do, but to learn that men lack this wiring overall is a great way to get set up for a jarring round of reality shock. In short, I fail to see any problem with exposing kids to the lifestyle dynamic, though I do see problems with exposing them to play or other analogues of sex in cultures where that is a taboo, due to the trauma incurred by conflicts arising from friction with the culture which holds it to be a taboo, and the risk of CPS kidnappings and the like. However, the more troubling issues are well worth addressing, such as the lack of a balanced portrayal of things, or how they might end up repressing their own nature if they don't turn out to share their mother's wiring (what if one of them identifies with the sub party, or craves the sub's side of the emotional interaction they see there?), or how the personal dynamic is being portrayed as a general truth, and so forth. If the couple had an asexual M/s dynamic, the issue of incongruence between expectations and reality, and intolerance of individual variability, and lack of appreciation for individual merit and so forth... those would be the only real issues, IMO. Didn't harm kids in the antiquity to see their parents owning slaves of the conventional sort. One would think that consenting ones should be equally natural. Kids adapt quite readily. It's parents, and parents' taboos, that tend to be harder to adapt. We might as well say that kids shouldn't notice that their parents have a relationship, or that they shouldn't be introduced to the notion of the nuclear family until they're old enough to choose whether to go for the older model of endogamy, or whatever. Not going to happen. They have a relationship, which has a certain dynamic, and a certain emotional exchange which can't be hidden. And for the parents to pretend to have a different kind of relationship than they do, thereby sending mixed signals to the kids, with the only consistency being that the principal role models for the kids are ashamed of themselves, would be the real obscenity. Is this stuff valid, or isn't it? If it's valid, teach that. If it's not, stop doing it. Consistency. Kids love consistency; a world that makes some kind of sense. Problem is, teaching them supremacy makes no sense. Health, al-Aswad.
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