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emdoub -> RE: What disheartens you about the Lifestyle? (10/26/2006 9:05:23 AM)
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What disheartens me these days is the folks who jump into "teaching the community", without more than a few hours' experience in what they're teaching. For example, the fireplay demo without any sign of a fire extinguisher. (I'm told they had one handy - but during the howto, it was never mentioned...) There's a lot of bad information out there, and people doing things they've seen, but simply aren't skilled enough to pull off safely.
The backbiting is fun, too - it seems that there's always a few who thrive on running whispering campaigns. My favorite is a "domme" who never says a word about anyone - she has her subs (almost all newbies) do the whispering.
When the world was young, and we carved our own floggers out of rocks, the community was small enough that such things were easy to point out and police. Now that it's gotten so big, it's impossible to police - which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does have its disheartening side.
OTOH, we've *always* had the Safety Police - who feel entitled to judge whether other folks are doing things 'right'. "It's unsafe to do any S/M if they've had any alcohol", that sort of thing. The folks who don't want to themselves - fine. The folks who condemn others who have different limits and methods have ALWAYS annoyed the bejabbers out of me.
Midnight Writer
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