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ChatteParfaitt -> RE: misogyny in BDSM (5/8/2012 5:04:55 AM)
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Replying to no one in particular:
Although I agree, to a certain extent, the world you see is the one you expect to find, there is real misogyny, misandry, and misanthropy lurking out there to a *very* surprising degree.
In my world, it has nothing to do with BDSM, and everything to do with how people still allow themselves to think.
I used to work for a large engineering school near the university here. Both faculty and student ratio was approx. 85% male to 15% female. The bias against females was so rampant that all faculty and senior admins had to attend a 3 day seminar on gender equality.
BTW: This had nothing to do with the university environment (which in most non-engineering schools is much more non-biased). How do I know this? I used to handle the new student orientation, and you should have seen the looks on the males' faces when they saw the person who was telling them what to do was FEMALE.
Now, I'm going to put it out there for discussion that people who are good at science and physics and math *tend* to have a rather rigid mindset in some ways. It is certainly not an absolute.
Also, I would not be basing much of my thinking on this subject on what anyone has in an online profile. There is so much deceit going on in the online arena, it's a separate sub-culture from the rest of the BDSM community at large. Admittedly, one that has not been well studied from a sociological point of view and is, therefore, little understood.
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