AAkasha -> RE: Does anyone else have this problem? (4/29/2005 3:01:44 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SweetDommes [rant mode] I have this serious problem with the combination of my job and the lifestyle. A lot of people make assumptions and/or tease me about things that I find rather offensive and degrading, and then don't seem to understand why I'm not so happy with them. I'm a nurse - I am a nurse because I want to help people feel better. I am not a nurse for the latex (which I'm allergic to, btw), for the restraints (which are only used on patients who are a danger to themselves or us - not my idea of a good time), or anything else. I don't get off on my job - and in the same manner, I don't get off on any role play involving nurses ... something else that people just don't seem to get. Tomorrow, I start a new job in a correctional facility as a med passer. It's a job, just like any other. I'll be doing pretty much the same things that I would be doing in a nursing home/rehabilitation facility. So why do I get the cracks about "caging" and handcuffs? I'm really tired of this bullshit. It's my job people - I take it seriously. I find cracks about why I'm a nurse, and now about where I have accepted a job, to be totally out of line, and degrading to me, my job, my morality, AND my place in this lifestyle. [/rant mode] Yes, that happens regardless of the profession (I get asked if I "dominate" anyone who has ever worked for me on a team at an agency, or how "hot" it must be to be a guy working for me). Recently I was mentioning some of my successes in my career path and a sub said something to insinuate that I "dommed" my way to the top, and that I got good grades in college because the professors were dominated by me -- err, right. It's the one track mind syndrome. But it also happens with anything. Take a normal conversation: Sub: So what are you doing tonight? Woman: I'm going to a party with friends. Sub: Oooh, a fetish party? ** Sub: Do you have any plans this weekend? Woman: I was going to go out shopping on Saturday afternoon. Sub: Hmm...buying new toys? Woman: No, a girlfriend and I just want to pick out some summer clothes. Sub: ooh. Is she a femdom too? Woman: No. Pretty much any conversation with a man who is in huge "sub mode" will just consist of him reading BDSM innuendo into anything you say or do. At times it can be annoying in a social setting because you can't get through a normal conversation with out him quipping something suggestive and thinking he's just SO clever. I think part of it is just their general excitement to be "hanging out with a femdom" but at some point they need to get past that one track mind and also know how to treat her like a woman, also. Akasha
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