WolfyMontgomery -> RE: Weight and Master/Dom control (11/30/2010 8:19:23 PM)
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Using Fast Reply =) Funny story on being overweight.... I know I'm not fat - my pictures are recent, I'm a mite bit chubby but I know I sure as hell ain't fat - but when I worked at Starbucks (yes, kill me now) I had plenty of folks commenting sometimes to my FACE why I wasn't as skinny and good looking as the other girls. Some people wanted the other girls to make the drink, because they thought I would be 'dirty' or something. They judged me because I happened to have an extra 25-30 pounds than the skinny twigs that were your regular Starbucks Barista girls. I didn't fit the 'proper image' of being a Barista, so I wasn't seen as a capable one - even though I also had plenty of customers (who weren't biased on how they viewed Baristas) who said that my lattes and mochas were much better tasting than several of the other more 'Barista' looking Baristas, because I actually used the shots fast without letting them sit and get cool and sour tasting like the other girls did. Not to mention I was a flying fuckload nicer. Humans will always be judgmental, it's something that I noticed from a very young age and continue to notice to this day. People say they aren't, but we all do - even I'm judgmental, so much as I try not to be. We humans like our stereotypes, Starbucks Baristas are supposed to be skinny bitches, Nerds are supposed to be skinny dudes with large rimmed glasses, Artists are always supposed to look 'eccentric', eat organic food, and not fit into society. Dominant men are supposed to be powerful and masculine and fit, Dominant women sultry and seductive and whatnot (that I don't really know, but from the random Dominatrix jokes in any cartoons and they're always leather clad evil women, I figure that's what a lot of society expects to see - whether we do or not), submissive girls are supposed to be shy and soft spoken, submissive boys are supposed to be sissies. Yeah, harsh, and no I don't really agree with them, but it's what I always see whenever I see that sort of thing pop up in conversation or in chat rooms, comics, public commentaries, etc... And Fat people - according to those commentaries and stereotypes - are lazy and eat too much. All that being said though, I have to both agree and disagree with them. Obviously for a stereotype to be created a good majority of people who follow a specific trend need to be similar to that stereotype, otherwise no one would say it (after all, you usually don't see an artist type being looked to to program a computer, do you? It's a stereotype that artists are bad with computers - one that is joked about often, and I know fits me lol). Which means that for the stereotype of fat people being slothful, eating too much, and having a lack of control over themselves - there has to be some basis for that stereotype to exist. It does NOT mean that ALL overweight people are such, hell no. But it does mean that there are a good portion of overweight people that meet that criteria to keep the stereotype alive. I will also say that that stereotype HAS been faltering this past decade or so - since what.... 60% of the American population is considered at least overweight? Or was it more? I was just reaching blindly, but also pulling from the fact that usually at least 3 out of every 5 people I see are big, and at least one out of those three are big as whales (not scientific, merely observant). I know - and society knows - that a lot of it is starting to stem from the fact that our society has been built around leisure and sitting around eating very rich food, we have stuff to do our chores easier or not at all (like those little robot vacuum cleaners), the most advertised food is processed, high calorie high fat high simple carb foods - the cheapest food is that too. We HAVE become a nation of lazy people. So nowadays you can't just blame the person (with or without medical conditions) for being overweight - they may just be stuck with a sit-down job and only enough time to eat at drive thrus. But at the same time, when I see someone who is overweight, I do question whether it is life's circumstances (medical or otherwise) that threw the condition on them, or if there are underlying issues that would make him not a good match/lack of self control/sloppy/overeating/whatever that could disqualify them for any sort of serious relationship. Though I wouldn't immediately believe such, but it would tell me to keep my eyes open and look for other signs of such behavior - such as a messy room in his photos, food stained clothes, how often they take care of daily needs (do they shower? how many times did they wear that shirt?), etc... They may still have a Dominant personality, sure, but they may not have a... "Together" or Responsible personality - which is another thing that I would want in a Dom so that I could know that not only could he control me, but control me well. All that said, Master's a little overweight just like me (HE says not me - I think he's HAWT), but he has no other qualities that cause one to think of laziness or not being responsible. And that's why he can manage me so well, because he's responsible and manages all aspects of his life - including me. We just happen to not have time for regular meals, and so we get fast food like three days out of the week. Edited to say sorry for the length, didn't realize how much I said - but I don't want to unsay any of it.
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