Wheldrake
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ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus I have talked to men literally breathless with excitement that they were speaking to a DOMINANT FEMALE. Sad? Pathetic? Perplexing? All of the above. Those men really never leave their fantasies. I agree to a point, but I think this attitude becomes less perplexing (and hopefully a bit less pathetic) when you remember the numerical imbalance between dominant women and submissive men. There's also the fact that some dominant women really do give off a "you're probably not good enough to talk to me" vibe. When you put those things together, it's easy to see how inexperienced submissive men could regard dominant women as rare, almost too-good-to-be-true entities that they're lucky even to be interacting with. I had a touch of this myself once upon a time, but I've pretty much grown out of it. Now I just like and admire dominant women, without putting them on that much of a pedestal. quote:
ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus Regarding what I bolded: isn't that our endless complaint, that we're treated as fetish delivery systems? Sure, but that's a slightly misleading way to look at it. A fetish delivery system would spank you in a predictable way when you pressed the "spank" button. I could be wrong, but I don't think many submissive men (sincere and committed ones, anyway) really want this. They want someone who will take control on her own terms and exploit them for her twisted, sadistic pleasure, which naturally might involve activities they genuinely don't enjoy and would never programme into a fetish delivery robot. The more service-oriented ones probably also want to be exploited for practical purposes. They just don't necessarily need to feel a deep emotional connection to the woman running the show, or know a lot about her as long as they're convinced of her capacity for dominance and/or sadism. quote:
ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus And "servitude and submission" according to whose definition? I have yet to meet a woman, even one deeply into objectification, who will allow herself to be used by just anyone. Anyone her master chooses, perhaps, but not ANYONE in a random group. There's a lot of space between "just anyone" and, say, "only someone I know well and really like". A dominant that's careless, psychotic or irresponsible is going to be dangerous, and one lacking imagination, natural authority and at least a bit of a evil streak is probably not going to be all that exciting, but as long as those qualities are in place there may not be much need for additional common ground.
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