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elderrook -> RE: A question of semantics (11/9/2007 3:33:21 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SimplyMichael
Actually, it is you who are ONLY a slave, or perhaps JUST a slave, or maybe you can't be MORE than a slave?
Doesn't feel as nice does it? Think about that before you go putting someone down as "ONLY" a top or bottom. I am sure this isn't something you mean to do but you are ranking which label is better rather than simply saying each is different.
Hmm. Interesting point of view. I can't help but notice a certain style in your reply to my post. I notice how you twisted what I said into something other than what I meant. I don't recall "puuting someone down as ONLY a top or bottom". Those are your words, not mine.
So let me take a look at some other things you've said in this thread....
"Top and bottom are not as cool sounding as slave and master...
Think about what you are doing."
Think about what YOU'RE doing. You're taking someone's words out of context, and making it sound like they say something other than what they mean. Just the way you did to me. The person who spoke of the "coolness factor" didn't say she felt that way. She didn't say Top and bottom are not as cool sounding as slave and master. In fact, the only person who did say that was YOU.
"Your community has an agreed upon range of definitions which is great. However, now you are comming here and wanting to place value on words."
Placing value on words? Yeah, some folks place too much value on words, and get VERY EASILY offended. Such as when you were offended when I used the words "only a top or bottom". It was my way of differentialing the two titles, no implication that one was better than the other. I should apologize now for the perceived offense. I hadn't realized there would be someone so thin-skinned as to take offense to it.
"In general two groups of people worry about labels. People who are new to the scene or who are in small groups and people who need to feel better about what they do and use labels to build themselves up and put others down. "
So which one are you? My guess is you need to feel better about what you do by putting others down, the way you did my post.
My advice to you: LIGHTEN UP.
Sometimes people use labels not to definitively define people, but to clear up what they're talking about. You call a person a top, and someone else may simply say master or domme. It's a way of clearing up what you're talking about and staying on the same page.
However, my guess is this will come to you as yet another assault on your character. If so, sorry about that. I agree with Stella. Would you like a cookie?
Susan, do you think he'd like some of your fudge? I hear you make great fudge. [;)]
-rook
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