BrutalDemon -> RE: CALL OUT TO THE OLD GUARD (2/5/2007 10:37:26 PM)
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Ooooooh-Kay... Lemme get this straight... if you've had 20 or more years real life (check) experience and are not one of these johnny-cum-lately cyber-doms or HNGs (check) that's, allegedly, ruining the otherwise rich pickings for us "Genuine" types... we are supposed to band together to rid cyberspace of the intolerant, one dimensional, asshats that are giving BDSM in general and Online BDSM in particular, a bad name. Because if we don't act collectively now, it's all going to go to hell in a hurry. Is that just about the gist of the OP? Wellllll... speaking as an Old Fart (note: NOT Old Guard, hate the misuse of the term)... I find the assumption that I fit into any pidgeonhole and will blindly follow someone based on the spurious idea that I obviously share their ideals (wether I do or not is besides the point) to be bordering on Dogma. If you trully belong to the generation that is so often erroneously refered to as 'Old Guard', one of the first things you should have learned, is that you do not try to interfer with another Dominant uninvited. Secondly, you do not presume to speak for any other Dominant without their explicit say so. And, most importantly of all, there is NO 'right way' to do things. Yes, the kids do it differently to the way we have done it in the past... just as we did it differently to the way our predecessors did it before us. No two relationships are the same... and if you're not involved in that relationship, you can kindly butt out! Honestly... these days, you can lead a collared sub down the street in most metropolitan areas without that much of a fuss. So long as you're careful about the local decency ordinances, you should be okay. A BDSM club is now no more likely to be raided than any other club or bar, and then only by the local equivalent of the Narcotics Division... no more "Let's go crack open the heads of a bunch of queers and freaks" All these years we've been persecuted by various "moral" groups and law enforcement agencies, when all we've ever wanted is tollerance and acceptance. Now that we're finally getting some of that tollerance, we're displaying exactly the same kinds of prejudices and intollerance to each other! I get my jollies by (essentially, your kink may vary) chaining women up and whacking them on the ass with ping-pong bat... but to do that, I have to build trust. How can I do that when elements of, for want of a better discription, "our own community" are fostering mistrust and factionalist dogma? SSC vs RACK... Compuserve Generation (MUCH better description than Old Guard) denigrating the Children of Yahoo... if BDSM was a religeon, historians could describe what's going on now as The Great Schism... it's turning into a Holy War... people are failing to adhere to YOUR One True Faith... Crucify the blasphemers... BURN THE HERETICS!!!!!! Me? I'm going to go back to being a sad, lonely individual, with all these urges and nobody to try them out on and too scared to even discuss it with other people in case they react badly to my particular deviancy... thanks a BUNCH guys.
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