amayos -> RE: Overly defensive submission (5/30/2007 7:13:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Copulo If I had a tear for every female sub I have heard utter the words ‘my submission is not a weakness’ I would have me a river. If I had a tear for every sub guy I heard say these words I would a half filled test tube. What I am interested to know is why it seems to come far more from female subs than it does from male subs? I personally feel submission is an expression of weakness—and a glorious one at that. The essence of "submit" is to yield to the superior will or force of another. Perhaps when one is not submitting to a superior force, the idea of weakness in submission does become a problem. Perhaps women make this an issue of contention for many reasons—be it the history of a woman's supposed secondary status throughout history, the opportunist predation of men, or the fact that deep in their hearts, they are not really submitting to much of anything at all, save themselves. I cling to an apparently idiotic belief that those who truly submit experience little strife with terms such as "weak" or "doormat" being tossed their way. What does it matter, really? For those living the reality of servitude, it is enough they are allowed to place themselves at the feet of their adored ones. While there is indeed a certain strength inherent in submission, it is not the type of flavor so many leashed girls with sawed off shotguns under their skirts are talking about; it is instead the strength of being ok with inferiority, of actualization and of quiet selflessness, the virtue of grace in subjugation and the purest will to please. It is the strength of a very bright circle of unremitting love, no matter the pain; all the things abhorred by a woman's modern programming, consequently. Perhaps men see submission to a woman as an extension of a status they feel and know already in their hearts, and are only roused the more when being reminded. Perhaps women fight it because it is ultimately against the nature of their clever egos, despite the outward images they portray.
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