Najakcharmer -> RE: Why is female supremacy accepted but not male supremacy? (5/1/2006 10:46:46 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MontaukDaisiesI suppose (as a woman) I ought to defend women/dommes... but I can't. I have been around D/s and BDSM groups/communities/real life happenings.. for more than a decade. I have SERVED a Domme, too. I have yet to meet ONE that was a loving person to her sub/slave. Each of the ones I've met and gotten to know spoke disparagingly about her sub/slave - as though /she was a piece of shit, a low-life.. Why these men stayed with each of these "dommes" is beyond me. So... there'll be someone that replies to this post that says I haven't met EVERY SINGLE Dominant woman around.. and you're right. We are about OPINIONS here on the boards. I'm stating mine. Each of the Dommes I've met seems very angry, very vengeful... female supremacy, blech! [:'(] My guess is that you have either met some people for whom Reasonable's suggestions should apply (eg, they'd be better off in therapy than in the kinky community) or you're seeing couples playing their "public games" that are just for fun, and which the male sub/humiliation fetishist has most likely requested from his partner. Personally I find it difficult to do that type of humiliation even as a play session, since I feel that my choice of submissive partner reflects very much on me. I want my partner to be someone I can be proud of, someone whose competence, strength, pride, personal conduct and honor is a positive reflection on me. What does it say about me if I choose to spend my time with a partner whom I fundamentally do not like, someone who is beneath contempt and unworthy? Nothing healthy or good to be sure. A few journal excerpts that may be relevant: "One of the classic "things that can go wrong" with BDSM relationships is making the mistake of thinking that because leather and kink are involved, it's okay to toss all the usual common-sense items out the window and refer to some Big Leather Book Of Answers that dictates what is proper in a D/s relationship. Doesn't work. There is no Big Leather Book Of Answers, and the fundamental stuff that happens in human relationships also happens in BDSM relationships. We are still humans with human emotions, and we still have to deal with the same issues as everyone else in our relationships. We don't get any exemptions from dealing with the world's real life issues, in or out of our relationships, just because we are kinky." "My model of the D/s relationship is very much like samurai to lord, in honorable fealty. Or like the alpha of a wolf pack, responsible leadership. It all ties in ultimately to my views about morals vs ethics, rights vs responsibilities. The dominant does not merely have rights over a submissive's body. That is only half of the equation. The other half is the awesome and occasionally frightening degree of responsibility for his safety and health, both physical and emotional. The responsible dominant is a protector, a leader, a healer, a nurturer, an alpha wolf who guides the Pack, a samurai lord who supports his retainers in honor. Too many of the people pursuing kinky pleasures have no conception of responsibility and see only the rights that are the fun part. They remind me of little children who look forward to being grownups so that they can go to bed whenever they want to. The reality of being a grownup is more rights and also more responsibility, and that's the part that some people fail to understand. " "Love to me is the awesome committment of total physical trust, the gifts of body and soul given and recieved, desire fierce enough to leave its mark on willing flesh. Romance is the security of real bondage, knowing that you are valued enough to be literally held, and you value your partner enough to restrain him. The gift of dominance is as bright and beautiful as the gift of submission, and as awesome in its scope. To take the responsibility, the burdens of another's life, completely into your hands for a moment so that they can rest - this is true love, to me. To submit one's self utterly into those hands, trusting, is a gift whose worth cannot be measured in this world, and nothing material could ever hope to match it. Those things are in me to the core, and they will be with me forever." "Eventually the whip arm gets weary, and you find yourself in the same room with an adult human being who has a mind and a personality and a voice. Should he not also be good company and compatible as well as a good submissive, this presents problems in any relationship lasting longer than a kinky play session. So, let us see if we can make friends first." Held fast by steel, you know the soft caress This paradox transcendent and rare The hand that closes fiercely in your hair Claiming past consent with strange and savage tenderness Painting passion crimson on your breast Yet says your name as softly as a prayer. I mark your willing flesh to write the things I should not dare And hope you hear what I shall there confess In the leather's kiss, for how can I say "I love you" any other way? - Naja K. Charmer
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