ScooterTrash
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Joined: 1/24/2005 From: Indiana Status: offline
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In response to the OP on the original subject, no, it doesn't make sense. You can't be submissive and be acting up as a brat, or if you are, you're doing one or the other rather badly. Somewhat like a law abiding criminal...an oxymoron in terminology. I've read every post up to this point, as I anticipated what was going to happen. Once again, there are two groups on opposite sides of the field, one saying the terminology we use are just words, perhaps labels, and they mean nothing (or whatever they want at that particular time) and then there is the other side, saying that there are defined meanings that are simply being ignored, or at best misunderstood. With this type of confusion, it is no wonder that it is difficult for someone to define their own role. If they do define it as best as they can, utilizing what appears to be definitive terms, they get slammed because either that's not what someone else thought they meant, or because they weren't accurate in their statement. Who is causing this dilemma (looks around and points)? I understand as well as anyone about "your kink is not my kink", but that is not an excuse to keep the waters muddy by not letting words have definition and meaning. I have said before and will say again, that the BDSM community as a whole, R/L and on-line are the only ones who can assign meanings to the phrases and words we use to describe WIITWD and the roles that it entails. It is not a job for one person, it is not a job for a committee, it is simply an evolutionary thing that will take care of itself if the opposition would just let it. The perpetual debaters, the ones who simply will not accept that it's a good thing to have defined terms are causing more harm than good. They, in their attempt to not relinquish themselves to anything that resembles organization are creating the chaos. Sure, we (as a social group) certainly are different, yes, we are not the established and accepted social order, but that does not mean we can't be organized in our own right. I do so understand what Dusty said about how this disarray causes problems in her search, the problem is us, we will not accept & agree on terms, so how the hell can we expect newbies, or even those who have been around for a while for that matter, to properly identify themselves. If we would exert half the energy toward agreeing on meanings as we seem to spend insisting that they are different for everyone, the problem would eventually go away. Then maybe, just maybe, the bottoms, slaves, subs, tops, Masters, Mistress's and even the just plain ole kinky folks could finally figure out what the hell they are. So is a dog a duck? NO, and neither is the meaning the same for being a brat or being playful.
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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound. -Albert Einstein
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