nephandi
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Joined: 9/23/2005 From: Cold and magickal Norway in a town near Bergen! Status: offline
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well it is tied in and let me show you how. The notion about what is and is not proper protocol regarding the addressing of Doms or Sub or Doms by Subs or Subs to Subs is establishing some kind of standard and yes you were correct in the standard you submitted here in your opening remarks but my point is that many here are here more for the profiteering than for the "lifestyle" and so they are using this site as a feed to pay sites and to obtaining fees for doing so which is a kind of commission. There are advertisement everywhere there are always those that are out selling something and I am not trying to minimize your problem here, I am not saying that it is a different topic. My topic is that there is allot of Dominants who think that just by capping their nick on the site they have special rights and should be addressed with subservience from those who identify as subs, you are talking about those who are spammers and are trying to get you into pay sites or who try to scam you into paysites which I am sure is a problem but it is a different problem. quote:
If you are here for that purpose than you establish some kind of irrelevant rules for the lifestyle such as one has to be addressed in some particular way or they are not following some "unwritten" law of the manner to address subs or doms. The reality is a lifestyle is not something that is a commodity or has some pre ordained rules for behavior such as the manner of addressing one another. It is just what its discripter implies a lifestyle. Set rules for the interaction between two people is established between those two (or it could of course be more) intimate individuals. General societal rules are just that we respond to hello how are you in turn and we politely adress folks we dont know in a proper fashion. This I agree with. quote:
When we see interactions as ways of obtaining money we have moved from social interaction to business deals and with business deals we may or may not follow the same social rules except those that prevent certain illegal action (insider trading). When the interaction as its fundamental basis is one that is working towards a monetary desire rather than building a relationship it may well be that we pre establish some kind of rules that require and may even be at odds with normal societal one such as responding to hello how are you. So as I hope you see my point in response to your smartly worded statements are relevant and I hope my response here has cleared up why I made mention the way I had. I see why you make the comparison, I just do not agree with it. The difference would be as if I said, oh everyone living in the city are rude to those living in the country and you say I completely agree I am having a huge problem with door sellers. The point is someone trying to sell you something is not unique to the kink lifestyles, it is rather universal and I do feel that is a different topic all together. quote:
Dark Steven, I think first off that you indicate I am some kind of target when you know nothing of me is a bit of a jump in logic on your part. I have been on the net and to many sites like this one as well as some pay sites and even the early free chat of Yahoo not to mention BBS which may have been before your time. The bottom line of my remark was that just as the discussion was about what is and is not the proper way for folks to interact by means of the way they address SUBS and DOMS so too is the use of these sites as a way to troll for customers to go to pay sites not exactly proper. They really are one in the same kind of misuse, be it trying to commercialize the exploitation of particular sexual interests or misusing the roles one adopts in BDSM lifestyle. Sorry that some have not seen the connection but to single out my sub persona or my fetish interests as that which makes me a target is a major mistake on your part about what and how to judge people and while I am at it who gave you the authority to judge me in the first place? Dom sub is irrelevent to the fact that with zero experience with me you jump to the conclusion I am some sort of target. Big mistake, as you have made yourself the target in your judgemental behavior. I think you are over reacting here saying that you are a target is not an insult it is a way to explain why you are getting so many of these people trying to get you to a paysite. Now I have been on this site for eight years or so and I have never had anyone try to get me to pay sites that I can remember, I do get advertisements for dieting though, that is what is meant by target, those that are just on a internet site to advertise will try to target those they think is more likely to bite, so for me since I am fat they try to sell me diet powder and for you since you have an unusual kink where it will take some time most likely to find a partner they try to sell pay sites to have a venue for your kink and pointing that out is not an insult. quote:
Kiwisub12 judgmental is saying that I must be a target and that I have an odd fetish. Who is setting the standards for what is and is not odd. For people who are in a community that are all trying to be accepted its strange for me to hear TARGET or ODD being used to discribe my interests as if anyone elses were not odd and that they too in their everyday lives are not targets of scorn from society. People in glass houses certainly should take a long hard look at what they are about to throw! I have an odd fetish if you want to call it that. I am an sex magician and I am very interested in using BDSM for sex magick. I want to find another BDSM sex magician who want to use me as a magickal tool for his or her ceremonies. I want to find someone who will do kink with me who becomes religious and magickal ceremonies and that is a pretty unusual kink, it is an odd kink. I also have this fantasy of being used as a reading table for another Cartomancer, just be chained in place, have a reading cloth laid on my back so they can read the Tarot or other oracle cards on me, and that is pretty odd. Saying that something is odd is not an insult, it just mean it is unusual and your kink is unusual, though perhaps not as unusual as mine. :) quote:
just curious how many are there with my particular fetish since you seem to have a grasp of the numbers? I suspect that there may be a bit more than you think and have we all become authorities now on what is and isnt normal in the BDSM community? Seems to me this is just another example of folks forcing a new "norm" on everyone else. Why are you so concerned about being normal. Yes there are some with your fetish but look at the profiles and just count how many list adult baby vs for example how many list spanking for example, your fetish is not unheard of but it is not common also it allot more common for for subs to have this fetish and Dominants and so it is hard for subs to find Dominants willing to engage in this particular kink, that do not make it wrong in any way. Saying that something is rare is not an insult, it is just a statement as to how usual something is. quote:
kiwisub12 what i would have done and apparently others have not bothered to do, is read the totality of my posts here before I was subjected to being called a target or my fetishes odd. Perhaps if someone had taken the time to read the posts I made rather than singling me out as some kind of target who has odd fetishes they would have responded to my thoughts presented rather than trying to reduce their response to my thoughts presented with implications that labeled me. What I find very difficult to comprehend is that some in forum posting dont bother to read the whole discussion, then jump in with short curt remarks as if they have some special insight ignoring the meaning of the discussion and reducing it rather than enhancing it. I hope you see what I mean here as it is not meant as a responsive attack as is implied in izi remarks back to me, "WOW settle down..." . I thought I was bringing some other insight to the discussion of the actions that not addressing individuals as Master was raising by pointing out that in part it has to do with some perceiving this site as a place to troll for customers for a commission at pay sites. Apparently this point has been lost by singling me and my fetishes out as being the root cause of the commercialization of BDSM behaviors rather than focusing on the implications of those who have come here with some kind of stict notion of what is extreme behavior in a world of extreme behaviors. Here is the case. Like I said I have never been approached by someone wanting me to go to a pay site and I have never heard anyone but male subs complain about this problem, that indicate that male subs, and especially male subs with rare fetishes are being targeted which is not a criticism of you. Now I understand your original point but I do not think it is the same mentality that fuel the two problems, your problem is those that try to advertise to you, they want you to pay them money, which is the same mentality as to why you have advertisement on TV shows or on YouTube, to make money. The problem with Doms who expect subs to obey them just for their capped nick have more to do with having the wrong expectations, they are both a problem with how people communicate with one another true, but the two problems have very different motivations behind them. Also if you are going to survive more than five minutes on this forum you need thicker skin I am sorry to say. If you get your knickers in a bunch over having your kink being called odd you will have a heart attack when you meet a poster who is actually unkind, which would be a shame for I am sure you have allot of good things to bring to this forum, you just need to calm down a little. I wish you well
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