blushingflower
Posts: 144
Joined: 10/11/2006 Status: offline
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I once had a "Dom" tell me I wasn't a true submissive because I didn't drop everything I was doing to chat with him when he was the one who had IM'd me, without bothering to see if maybe I had anything else to do. I was probably a bit snotty to him, but I'm only snotty to people I think deserve it, and strangers who think I should drop everything to grovel before them definitely deserve it. I think that the differences between a "slave" and a "sub" are gray lines that are slippery and hard to nail down. Especially because so much of it is about self-definition. If I say I'm a slave, and my Master says I'm a slave, than who is to say I'm not? (I don't say I am, except sometimes in bed). This Domme may think that a "slave" is someone who lives in a 24/7 situation and obeys completely and totally, hence her thinking you're too willfull for that. And maybe that kind of situation wouldn't make you happy. But that doesn't mean you can't call yourself a slave if it feels right to you. Having it in your screen name might make people assume certain things about you, but even a slave isn't required to be submissive to everyone, only to the one who owns her.
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