Comments | fierceawakening: An excellent comment by devastatingyet

fierceawakening

An excellent comment by devastatingyet

Feb 12, 2009 10:41

...on this whole blogworld kerfuffle going on about BDSM lately, and the insistence from some "radical feminists" that M/f is the only dynamic they want to discuss:

I find the whole thing infuriating. Of course, women like me (tops, or switches) don't exist in this discourse at all. We're obviously controlled by men in some different way that should ( Read more... )

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ramik February 12 2009, 16:01:13 UTC

Heh. That's some high quality snark.

fierceawakening February 12 2009, 16:22:48 UTC

*bows*

amblinwiseass February 12 2009, 16:18:14 UTC

:D

(And don't even bring up the subject of submissive men. We're monsters.)

fierceawakening February 12 2009, 16:22:21 UTC

OMG UR TOPPING FROM THE BOTTOM BY BREATHING

erin_c_1978 February 12 2009, 16:49:41 UTC

"See that man over there? You belong, body and soul, to him. You can do nothing about this, but together we CAN dance around bonfires and howl at the unfairness of it all."

Snarky or not, that is a REMARKABLY good summary of what some folks on the radical feminist spectrum sound like when they talk about BDSM.

kawakiisakazuki February 12 2009, 17:27:56 UTC

"See that man over there? You belong, body and soul, to him. You can do nothing about this, but together we CAN dance around bonfires and howl at the unfairness of it all."

This seems to lack a "... but only if you howl as I howl and don't dance around those OTHER bonfires, just mine."

belledame222 February 13 2009, 08:50:55 UTC

well, you can howl, just don't be vulgar about it.

nerdanel February 12 2009, 19:10:38 UTC

Rant on, my friend. Totally agree.