ChatteParfaitt
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Joined: 3/22/2011 From: The t'aint of the Midwest -- Indiana Status: offline
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FR Some great replies here. As I've said many times before, I don't believe anyone is 100% dom or 100% sub, or 100% female or 100% male or 100% gay or 100% hetro. Human personality can be viewed on a continuum, with all traits and their opposites present on the scale. (This isn't my idea BTW: It's psychology 101). However, humans do tend to relate strongly in their sexual or orientation preferences. Although I don't believe anyone is 100% male (by that I mean, has no feminine or softer side), a man may very well strongly relate to being male, and might even repress those softer tendencies. This is extremely common in our (US) society. So there's what you are, which is human and made up of many, many complex personality traits and preferences, and then there's how you relate or how you see yourself. When I first became interested in BDSM, I came out as a domme. There was no way in hell I was going to call myself submissive. Back then, I saw that softer side as being weak, passive, not capable. And I couldn't relate to that at all. (This is despite always having a male in my life who was sexually dominant.) Then I had kids and learned to embrace my softer side. I saw quite clearly that my feminine side can be strong too. I learned to appreciate both sides of myself. A switch is who I am, and how I relate to others. For me that just means I am a highly dual natured person. Some of us are. In every facet of my life. I have both strong masculine and feminine traits, I like men and women. I am both left brained and right brained. (I come out 50-50 on all those tests). It's who I am and there's nothing wrong with it. Now, there are *some* switches who are not really predominately dom OR predominantly sub. There are switches that prefer to be with another switch, and then there are ones like me who have NEVER switched with the same person. I think this has to do with my own personal intensity. I am either very much one way, or very much another, I am never wishy-washy. So, when I relate as a sub to someone (like my husband) I am very sub. When I relate as a domme (like with my lamb) I am very dom. I have had people meet me in one context or another, like say, interacting with my husband, and say they could not IMAGINE me as a domme. But there are those who have seen me with my boy who say they could not image me as a sub. Then there are those who look at me curiously until I say: 'switch.' And then they understand who and what they are dealing with. Now, do I think lots of people have preconceived ideas about switches? Yes, but mostly online. Do I think there is prejudice against switches? Sure. There is prejudice against any group that can be conceived. What I don't get is someone attempting to persuade someone they should accept a switch. For me, it's easy-peasy. You don't like switches? Great!! NEXT!!
< Message edited by ChatteParfaitt -- 7/29/2015 9:14:52 AM >
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