hardbodysub
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VaguelyCurious, as everybody else has already said, you're completely in the right. There's no universal rule about dominants staying higher than their subs, and anybody who says so is full of BS. There are plenty of cliches that the "establishment" tries to get everyone to accept: subs must keep eyes cast downward, subs must dress a certain way, or use a particular method of address when they speak to dominants, all kinds of things. It all boils down to how you fell about it, and what you want. Outside of the general concepts of safety, respect, and the dominant being in charge, I can't think of any universal rules. You've been confronted by the hubris of the guardians of the one true way, those who accept without question the ways of those who taught them, those who try to get everyone to see it their way because "that's the way it's done", tradition, the way they learned from their teachers, and their teachers' teachers before them. It's one of the most irritating and foolish aspects of the BDSM community. In regard to your DM friend, since he appears to have been acting out of kindness, and trying to help you out, it's probably not fair to be pissed at him. Although I do find the condescension somewhat insulting, I think an appropriate emotion would be disappointment at his naive acceptance of such foolishness.
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