Succi -> RE: I May Be A Submissive...... (7/10/2011 3:33:27 PM)
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Having been on this site both as a boy sub and lady domme... I think it's related to the whole "men are from mars" crap. Yes, crap, it's not scientific at all, at best it's inconclusive, but I digress. There is the popular (mis)understanding in culture that women are just naturally more submissive than men. I don't think it's the "predatory" thing though (see above). I think this comes from several places: 1) Faux-scientists who like to promote some misogynistic gender divide about how men and women communicate and respond socially to different situations (which in turn leads to "Your man doesn't NOT care about your feelings, he just can't understand them! Give the slob a break!") 2) Internet porn categories. Anyone who's even looked at a website knows they play fast and loose with labels (an Italian girl under "Black", a 130lbs woman under "BBW") and some guy stumbles across the "submissive" tag, and all it is is some guy pushing the woman to her knees to give him oral and saying "yeah you like that?" which is in reality not that much kinkier than half the married couples in America for crying out loud (and we've got those giant poles up our butts about sex...ha-ha...). Of course, most of these site browsers are male. Mostly. 3) The preponderance of men over women to use dating sites in the first place, this automatically skews numbers in favor of women no matter the persuasion. This doubly applies to female dominants who ALREADY outnumber their subs by some 5-to-1 margin. I dare say most male subs won't even get an email once a month here, and not for lack of trying (Doms, no idea). Which leads to 3a) The average intelligence of the Human race: In order to compete with a much larger pool of men than they would at, say, a munch, many men, even dominants, resort to being "more" than the next guy. If i can be more upfront and in your face about being a dom/sub it will work! So, we combine all of these points to form a picture of the faux-dom. He is a man who has heard from some guy on the news somewhere that women are more submissive than men. He finds submissive porn and says "hey I do that all the time" and tries his hand at a d/s site, figuring it's just an adultfriendfinder for girls who like to get slapped. The professor is done for the afternoon. Off to lunch.
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