CallaFirestormBW -> RE: To CAPITALIZE or not ? (12/2/2008 1:54:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer No, submitting to female leadership is not by definition "irresponsible" - of course not. What I think would be irresponsible is for me to submit to a woman then, as it were, force others to submit to her as well - by, for instance, letting her direct the way I do my work or deal with my friends. They haven't made the choice to submit to her, I alone have done that. It wouldn't be fair on those others. There's a huge difference between other people submitting to your Dominant through you and other people recognizing the dynamic you have with her. I think you are still looking at it in such a way where the writing style is used everywhere with everyone. It isn't. If I were to impose such a thing for clip's business dealings or with non lifestyle people, I would tend to agree with you. Since it isn't the case, I don't. Perhaps an example of a similar concept would have you see it in a different way. At any kind of lifestyle gathering, event, or get together of like minded people, My submissive introduces himself as clip, or Lady Pact's little clip if we're going to be really formal about it. Of course, that's not the name he has on his birth certificate, driver's license or anything else. It's the name he uses because I gave it to him for our dynamic. For regular life, he uses the name he was born with. For those things BDSM related, he uses clip. Now, if you were to meet him at an event, would your calling him clip be a version of your submitting to Me through him? LP, I think it's more that he's saying that he wouldn't want to submit in any way that anyone outside of his Mistress would be exposed to. My question about this is... how would he feel about things like opening doors, 'handing' her out of the car, carrying packages for her, etc.... would those, if she commanded them, because they are no longer 'common courtesies', also be considered a form of 'submission' that he wouldn't want to expose strangers to? If not, what's the difference between courteously formal speech and courteous formality in opening doors or carrying packages? As an aside, I've actually had people say that they didn't want to communicate with me unless I told them my real name, because if they spoke to me using my chosen moniker, they would be 'submitting' to me by calling me by my chosen designation (not title... the name I choose to use when I'm not trapped by my legal name). They honestly felt that it was a form of submission to be asked to call someone something other than one's legal name. *shrugs* Clearly not folks destined to be -my- servants, eh?
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