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pop quiz

Jun 08, 2004 10:17

quick, somebody tell me the difference between dominant and domineering.

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grail76 June 16 2004, 07:03:57 UTC

I think dominant is a personal tendency. When you go to a meeting and you're the one who keeps it on track instead of wandering around or not coming to a decision, you're dominant.

domineering suggests you do it when it's not welcome. "he had a domineering mother who never let him make a decision."

subswitch June 16 2004, 10:18:26 UTC

hey jl, thanks for responding.
check out my answer to captivated kitten regarding characterization getting in the way of empathic accuracy and let me know what you think.
james

grail76 June 16 2004, 10:25:33 UTC

I think there's something to what she says. She's taken "dominant" and made it into the ability to inspire, which to me would mean they were good at it. I think you can be dominant and not very good at it, perhaps unable to inspire but able to plan and create how a group should act. Kind of depends on the submissive in a bdsm context. Some want to be seduced. Some want to be controlled. the "oh, treat me like an object ... " kind of thing.

subswitch June 16 2004, 11:36:56 UTC

we should probably be friends.
whaddya think

grail76 June 16 2004, 11:39:10 UTC

John kisses your hand.

subswitch June 17 2004, 08:42:57 UTC

now that was a truly unexpected response

grail76 June 17 2004, 08:48:27 UTC

no one expects the spanish inquisition?

subswitch June 18 2004, 05:07:42 UTC

i can't speak for everybody but for me Miguel Cervantes and Don Quixote, it comes as a bit of a surprise.....surprises are good in general but a surprise trip to the rack probably was a bit disconcerting,
interesting, perhaps even inviting but disconcerting never the less

grail76 June 18 2004, 06:38:46 UTC

ah. It's an old Monty Python line: "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" spoken by three of them dressed as spanish cardinals.

http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/paulfitz/spanish/script.html

subswitch June 18 2004, 07:49:15 UTC

whoops, sorry. better brush up on my Python. is this where yu get the holy grail? Thought maybe you were a davinci code guy

grail76 June 18 2004, 08:18:00 UTC

actually yes. I wanted a name not associated in any way with me and 'grail' was on a video at hand. If "the secretary" had been there, I might have ended up "Lawyer76"

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