Proprietrix
Posts: 756
Joined: 7/15/2005 From: Ohio/West Virginia Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: subtlesubie THe enmity and vitriol here between these two groups is staggering. Given that they need and covet eachother, you would think that once in a while some one from either side would have something nice to say about the other. Yet clearly connections are being made. Is CollarMe is for meeting people, and CollarChat for sniping at them? I'm going to go against the general opinion here and agree with you. I do indeed see a lot of what you're talking about. On nearly a daily (and sometimes several times a day) I see a male come to collarchat and state his fantasies. And then I see (and often join) a bunch of Dommes who try to "set the record straight" that we are not personal fantasy fulfillers. I don't attribute it to a general hostility between malesubs and Dommes though. I attribute a lot of it to the lack of accurate titles for people. I've seen a trend of the internet being used a great deal by male bottoms who are after kink, play, sex, and fantasy fulfillment, and being used a great deal by Female Dominants who are after power exchange, and D/s or M/s relationships. Contrary to popular belief, most male bottoms aren't seeking out female Dominants. They are seeking out female tops. And most female Dominants aren't seeking out male bottoms. They are seeking out male submissives. Everyone is so repulsed by the idea of using titles, labels, and definitions, that a lot of people entering the lifestyle have no clue what the difference is between a bottom and a submissive, or between a Top and a Dominant. If they don't already know the difference, and they aren't given a chance to learn the difference, and they have no option of defining themselves as one instead of the other, then it makes perfect sense that they are going to choose "the answer closest to what I am". Beyond that, I think many of the female Dominants who log on here (myself included) realize that the greater percentage of male submissives and male bottoms who log on to sites like these, don't have a realistic perspective of us. And sometimes (like after the 12th fantasy laden, unrealistic, stereotyped post that week) we begin to lose a bit of patience (and a bit of hope) and start coming across a lot more bitchy than we were 11 posts earlier.
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IMO, IMHO, YMMV, AFAIK, to me, I see it as, from my perspective, it's been my experience, I only speak for myself, (and all other disclaimers here).
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