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thetammyjo -> RE: Man rapes wife in 2-Hour "Bondage video" (2/25/2007 5:10:36 PM)
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I debated for a few days whether or not to respond to this and decided I needed to because it was an attempt to downplay my opinions on this topic.
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ORIGINAL: daddysprop247
now, as for beliefs regarding men and women in general, i can certainly understand why you, particularly as a female Dominant would be offended.
This completely misunderstands me, as I think anyone who has read a few dozen posts from me on this group or known me in person would clearly see.
It isn't a matter of me being a dominant woman.
I would be as offended if instead of man/woman you had made such universal judgemental claims of hierarchy and used any combination.
White/black
Young/old
Jewish/ Catholic
Hindi/Moslem
Tall/short
ETC
I find universals to be offensive because I can look around me in the world I live in and in the worlds I study and see they are not true. I see why they are promoted and I see the effects of that promotion in the lives of individuals.
I value individual human beings as individual human beings. I find it offense when someone doesn't.
I find it confusing when someone includes themselves in a category that they define as inferior or in the "natural" submissive role as part of such a large group. If someone really did believe their definition of "natural" inferiority, I don't understand how their public promotion of that does not undo the very thing they are promoting.
It's like Phyllis Schlafly running around speaking out against the ERA in the 1970s because she said that woman's role was to be at home taking care of the children and making life easier for her husband. How was she doing any of that while she ran around the country making a public spectacle of herself? If she really believed that, shouldn't she have packed the lunch for her husband so he could go out on a speaking tour?
Contrary to what Schlafly may have thought she was doing, she demonstrated that women could have a public and political power and that they need not stay home and let the men run things. Even though she helped turn the tide against the ERA her very presence encouraged later generations of women to get more involved and not stay home as she said they should.
So when a woman says women are inferior to men in a public venue where both men and women are writing and reading, she is, I would argue, actually demonstrating that is not the case because she can make arguments and defend herself quite fine without a man stepping in for her.
Personally I thank my foremothers and forefathers that I do live in a world where males and females are approaching equality, where they can get similar educations and can speak to each other without fear of some religious fanatic calling them out for a public flogging or stoning. Others using the same rights may choose to ignore them while they use them but that does not make the rights less real, just ignored for fantasy or rhetoric's sake.
In my opinion, we should all be grateful that we can make these choices because (god or goddess forbid) we could lose them.
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