Amaros
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I have no idea who Mons was refering to originally as "sick", but it sounds judgemental, which is naturally going to create a reaction formation in a community that by defintion is on the fringe and sensitive to perjorative appellations. On the other hand, there are sick people in this subculture, as there are in any culture, so turning a specific observation and opinion into a generalized one is tricky business - as far as I'm concerned, the generalized debate has nothing whatever to do with Mons, or whoever she originally referred to - they might well be sick - maybe they're just disgusting (eeeewww!), offensive, excessive, etc., I dunno. "Sick", is an epithet I generally reserve for predatory psychopaths with no regard for the physical or psychological integity of their victims, as it implies some genuine and potentially dangerous psychological imbalance that bears watching, and I'd generally use a bit stronger word for it myself given that it's also a figure of speech. Subs do occasionally end up in a hospital or a padded cell, after being at the mercy of some sick bastard, just as they do in the vanilla world - just because something makes me queasy, or gives me pause, doesn't mean it's "sick" - and you'd have to go pretty far to even squick me anymore, it all pretty much fascinates me short of uncontrolled violence. In short, one first feels obligated to discern whether the term is being used as a figure of speech ("dude, that's sick!), or in a imperative and perjorative sense, I'd have to see the original post or email to make that distinction. If it was an email, which is a private correspondence, then bringing the author, mons apparently, turning it into an open thread without permission or qualification, is wrong, and mons deserves an apology.
< Message edited by Amaros -- 10/8/2006 7:32:34 AM >
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