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tazzy, I was just trying to tease a little with the word play on "recognizing" switches. I adore puns! In general, I'm a fan of people having and expressing preferences in their relationships, as long as they're reasonably polite about it. If someone says that all switches are weak or unworthy of being served, I do get mildly annoyed. If they express that they don't want to date switches, fine, no problem. If I'm understanding you correctly, you're in a M/s power exchange with a Gorean man, but don't identify as Gorean yourself, so don't choose to use the label of kajira?
MusicMastery and bondmaid as far as I can tell from reading the occasional thread here from Gorean posters, there are two very different positions that have been expressed on the Natural Order/order of nature. Please clarify or correct me if I am mistaken. The first, which I have no problem whatsoever with, is that the majority of men are dominant, and the majority of women are submissive, but individuals are free to be and live however suits them. If an individual person, whether male or female, puts on a dominant/threat front, they come across like a Pekinese picking fights with a pitbull - not able to back up the dominance display that they are putting on, and it can be motivated by fear or weakness. In general, men tend to be stronger, faster, and better at hand-to-hand combat, but there are a lot of individual exceptions, again.
In the other view, which I have seen from self-identified Goreans, the fact that the majority of men are more athletic/etc. and are more likely to be dominant means that *all* men should be dominant and *all* women should be submissive, and that those who aren't are delusional or haven't recognised their place yet. That, I do object to.
In general, I don't really find generalisations about dominance and submission based on gender to be useful or applicable to me as an individual, and there are so many exceptions that I don't feel that using them for predictions of other people's behaviour or interests to be reliable. So, that's why I referred to them as silly - I think they're pointless unless you're doing some sort of statistical or sociological report on populations as a whole.
LA, I don't have any problem with the Gor books being a male-dominated society - authors choose to create different cultures based on a lot of factors. Anne McAffrey's Pern novels are also very male-dominated, although there are some exceptions (and use of those exceptions as major plot points, to show the struggle of women to be accepted in non-traditional roles). If a woman is dominant in the Gor fictional universe, she would either want to find a man who is strong in public, because if he comes across as weak, they are both likely to be harmed. What they do in their own homes, in privacy, would be up to the two of them. If she were able to, she might leave and join the Panther Girls to avoid the male-dominated culture of the rest of Gor. In some cases, she becomes involuntarily enslaved, and her spirit is broken, or she turns out to be a strong, independent, powerful woman who enjoys being a slave (although, I didn't personally care for how those scenes were written, in the two books I read).
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