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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

This statement could not be more wrong.  For one thing, you don't mean "lower case" and "upper case"; you mean "minuscule" and "majuscule."  And factually you're incorrect too.  The Roman alphabet had no minuscule, and Greek minuscules developed centuries after the majuscule.

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ORIGINAL: MistressMelissa

Lower case letters were developed first , then punctuation and finally upper case letters.

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ORIGINAL: Celeste43

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ORIGINAL: MMshappysub

This all goes back to showing your Dominant respect. Always putting Him first and not yourself.

Actually my dom forbids me writing I in lower case. So what you say doesn't apply to all doms. And some are language mavens who dislike reading non standard English.

More importantly however, is that there are many visually impaired people who use readers and this makes it damn near impossible to follow what is being said. IE " I slash i think You slash you are wrong when You slash you said I slash I"

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ORIGINAL: Legman1

It's not about grammar. It's an exercise in self-discipline which many subs need and a way to honour the D/s.
Where's the tolerance.

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ORIGINAL: Lorelei115

its amazing how much emotion and intent people can read into words on a screen, ya know?

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Also, I've read a lot of adommeforu's posts, and she has NEVER come off to me as someone who is "Domlier than thou".

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
To compare this to writing in slashy speak is just freakin idiocy and it shows a total lack of critical thinking on the subject at hand.

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ORIGINAL: Hercuckslave

O/ok, P/perhaps J/just A/a L/little R/rant O/over H/here.

D/does A/anyone E/else F/find T/the I/i, Y/you, W/we, U/us, M/me C/capitalization S/stuff A/as A/annoying A/as I/i D/do?  I/t H/has N/nothing T/to D/do W/with D/d S/s A/and J/just M/makes I/it M/more D/difficult T/to R/read P/posts A/and E/emails.  T/to M/me I/it I/is J/just C/cyber C/crap.  I/i P/personally P/prefer S/simply F/following T/the A/accepted R/rules O/of G/grammar.

M/m's M/m

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

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I don't happen to think that all grossly overweight people got there due strictly to genetics

So you take any random child, feed it the same thing that your parents fed you, and by virtue of all the crap they put into this new frankenfood the child gets slightly fat. Add in asthmatic because the air makes them sick, and they do not want to go outside and exercise because of it....

So both parents work, buy convenience foods, are not around to monitor the child and the kid gets fatter and fatter. By the time the kid is an adult they are obese. They have never known a thin day in their life, they have never known what it is to move with ease, they have never known what it is to run without coughing becayse they can't breathe, and the school pushes soda and potatoe chips with pizza at them... welcome to America and the future of obesity... it is a problem that starts in childhood excerbated by junk in school and the air being too toxic for their little lungs to run and play in...

To compare this to writing in slashy speak is just freakin idiocy and it shows a total lack of critical thinking on the subject at hand.

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
There've been several argumentgs against the use of fat people in my argument (won't speak for LA...she can do so quite well herself) re: they do not act as an active annoyance with an intrusion into a person's activities in the way that someone posting on the forum or to you directly does.  I concede that point to a certain extent, though I will say this:  next time you are seated on an airplane and they sit someone morbidly obese in the seat next to you and their size is crowding in on  your body, ask yourself if that is active annoyance or passive.

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ORIGINAL: SamKeithsslave

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
There've been several arguments against the use of fat people in my argument (won't speak for LA...she can do so quite well herself) re: they do not act as an active annoyance with an intrusion into a person's activities in the way that someone posting on the forum or to you directly does.  I concede that point to a certain extent, though I will say this:  next time you are seated on an airplane and they sit someone morbidly obese in the seat next to you and their size is crowding in on  your body, ask yourself if that is active annoyance or passive.

Its the above lack of compassion and understanding that cause many obese to remain obese. Believe me when I tell you that the 'morbidly obese' would have more reason to find the above annoying than anyone/you. Because we know that there are people out there who think as you do. Now for someone who has tried in vain to lose weight constantly to have to try and fit into a seat that even some "average" people find uncomfortable, knowing that the person next to them is probably thinking "if they didnt stuff themselves with cream cakes........ etc" is extremely embarassing and not at all fun. Add to that the fact you know they are annoyed by you and you then got someone who is going to become even more depressed. I dont believe most weight problems are genetic. I believe most are emotional and/or 'nuture' as juliaoceania states.
So I would say to you, next time you sit on a plane next to a 'morbidly obese' person who is invading on your space, ask yourself how/why they got to that stage. You know no-one chooses to be obese, for some it happens as juliaoceania says. For others there are emotional/mental etc factors that unless you have lived through them you wouldnt understand them. If I were an anorexic person I would be given understanding and consideration that I have a 'condition', being obese doesnt get the same consideration, maybe it should?

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
Why does the fact that I believe differently than you regarding this matter make me non-compassionate? 

I never said it was because you thought differently makes you non-compassionate. I was commenting on your comment in regards to "annoyance or passive" when refering to sitting next to someone large on a plane.
 
Sorry...the 8 years I spent in classes related to the human body and its diseases and to the psychology of humans and their histology and neurology and endocrinology and -ologies ad nauseum does give me some insight into this and I don't happen to agree that every single obese person made it to obesity through every kind of outside factor you can imagine except their own choice.

Only 8 years?  I have spent 20 + years fighting weight and all the -ologies in the world cant give you the insight that actually living it can - as I am sure you'd understand seeing as...........

By the way...in case you hadn't noticed some of my earlier posts when I first came to collarme...one of my submissives was about 5'3" tall and weighed about 185lbs.

BTW, I had not noticed your earlier post you made when you first came to collarme etc Why would I? I have only just started here myself. To expect me to "notice" something you wrote 590+ posts ago is a little impractical.

The issue of weight never came up between us.  Made no difference to me or to her.  We both knew how she had gotten there.

If you are going to argue against me or read behavioral characteristics into something I've stated as an intellectual belief, then read everything I say and stop picking out those "soundbites" that inflame you.

a) I am not "arguing" against you, I was merely stating my point of view about a comment you made.
b) And nothing you have said has "inflamed" me either. Why you think it has I dont know.
 
Why everything I write is being interpretated by some as an attack or a desire to argue is beyond me. I would suggest perhaps it is you who has gotten a little inflamed? Of course I cant make you believe I am not inflamed or looking for an argument, all I can state are the facts, which are that as I wrote my last post and this one I do so calmly and with no malice or desire to cause confrontation.
You made a comment, a specific one about whether or not sitting next to someone obese would be annoying or not, I merely tried to offer an alternative to how the obese person might be feeling. I did in fact agree with you that I do not believe obesity should always be considered to be 'genetic'. I would question your view that some people have no self control and live for immediate self gratification etc While it may be true that some people may start gaining weight through a lack of control I believe there does come a point when every obese person looks in the mirror and says "whoa! I gotta do something". Unfortunately by then bad habits & bad eating patterns have found their footing and failed efforts to lose weight then add to the weight problem and then starts the emotional downward spiral. And you have someone not overweight because they have no self-control and only live for the moment, you have someone obese because they are lost as to where to turn next.

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
Also...the American Medical Association has labeled many things a disease...alcoholism, obesity, homosexuality, an affinity for BDSM.  I don't happen to agree with their broad sweep.  Not every alcoholic has a genetic predisposition to it.  I don't happen to think that all grossly overweight people got there due strictly to genetics.  I don't think homosexuals are "sick".  I don't think that those of us who like BDSM necessarily have something "wrong" with us mentally.
Of course, it is the A.M.A. who once labelled chiropractic as "cultism" and accupuncturists as "quacks".