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SoulPiercer -> RE: What's the submissive version of "Domme"? (1/11/2009 2:02:05 PM)
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ORIGINAL: darchChylde
While I myself use the term domme on occasion, I tend to use female or woman dominant. I think that the term is, at it's root, an attempt to make the idea of a female dominant as less than the male counterpart by specifically differentiating between the two. : Look at it this way: why is it a Mistress and not a Master, with the negative connotations associated with the term mistress (example: the other woman or a kept woman)?
The above is my opinion, no facts were abused (or even touched) in the forming of this opinion.
Possibly. But I think it's closer to the practice of spelling "woman" or "women" as "womyn" - thereby removing "man" or "men" from the spelling. As you can guess .. that probably isn't an idea that a group of guys came up with.
Dominant is often abbreviated as "dom". Since we all know now .. no one really wants girls and boys to be equal and mostly because "dom" just looks masculine, "domme" was created. Followed by Domina, Dominatrix and on and on.
Before mistress was used as a term for the chick you were fooling around with on the side, it was a title for the female head of the house, the male head of the home was the master. Which explains why Mistress in the BDSM world is the female equivalent of Master. Again .. no big conspiracy among the men folk to keep the womyn in their place.
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