ChatteParfaitt
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Joined: 3/22/2011 From: The t'aint of the Midwest -- Indiana Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: MarcEsadrian quote:
ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt Master/slave implies one person having complete power, authority, control over, and responsibility for, another. Which is, in my never humble opinion, a fantasy. And yet other takes from coiners themselves (Davis, Jacobs) see it as "[ ... ] a relationship in which no impediment to the exercise of the owner's power is accepted" or "such things as safewords, contracts, negotiated limits, and anything else which recognizes / acknowledges / formalizes limits on the owner's power are inimical to TPE". I see terms such as "owner" and "power" and "no impediment" being used quite assertedly in the above as ideals, so once again, TPE seems to follow the M/s paradigm fairly well. As an aside, anyone with experience in M/s knows notions of "total" power, control and responsibility, while ideal, are effectively misnomers, as they cannot be absolutely qualified in all possible abstract examples, so perhaps we can dispatch that straw man. quote:
ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt You can enjoy a roleplay type fantasy of complete control for short periods of time, but the reality is, good, long-term relationships just don't work that way. Which is why many relationships may begin as M/s, they evolve into a TPE. That's an interesting take on things, but I don't see any real evidence "M/s" magically turns into your version of "TPE" as a rule, or why it needs to. Your assertions disqualifying M/s from being a long-term relationship paradigm are unfounded and require a significant burden of proof to uphold. quote:
ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt Good, long-term relationships require a synergy, a back and forth, a mutual *exchange* if you will, in order for the couple to thrive and evolve. I'll avoid asking what you mean by "good" and cut to the chase: are you inferring M/s does not allow for a fulfilling symbiosis? Are you likewise implying M/s does not allow the parties involved to "evolve" (in any "good" direction)? My experience on both sides of the fence, so to speak, shows otherwise. quote:
ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt It does mean I have ceded final authority to him. Which, if you've been following along and not merely reading to pull statements out of context to condescend, is why I suspect Ultimate Authority Transfer is a far less misleading phrase, and more effectively delineates many such relationships from the ideals upheld in M/s (and apparently, TPE as well). *You* are the one pulling statements out of context to condescend. That doesn't work on me. I do not engage people in debate who need to attack those who don't agree with them (see highlighted phrase above) or who need to fight their battles with the use of semantics. Well,okay, sometimes I *do,* but only when they are meglomaniac chaos lords with the emotional stamina of a toddler. And then I do it just for fun.
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