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Termyn8or -> What is CM ? (12/15/2008 9:25:02 AM)
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I am starting to think it is like a morning newspaper for the kinky. That we are the writers, by invitation, which would explain a few things.
I just looked and there are 331 members and 1,431 guests here. That means that at this time there are over three times as many people reading our words as those priveledged to write them. Are we really that interesting ?
Perhaps so, notice where you are at this moment.
I see posts get pulled, that is simply the equivalent of an editor disapproving. We are not required to churn out X amount of articles per day, and we can get alot more politically incorrect than anyone could at a major newspaper. There is no pay, but for one those reporters don't make all that much, and for two we are not charged with covering this or that story. The topic is solely at our discretion.
However the topic can be removed, just as the editor can bounce a story that the author thinks belongs on the front page. Why ? Because there are a whole different set of factors in play on the other side of the desk, so to speak.
So think of it this way, if all the letters to the editor were published in your local Sunday morning newspaper, it would take a semi to deliver it, for each copy I mean. There has to be some selection. There was a deslection just this morning, about the shoe thrown at Bush, though it might have only been moved over to stupidity. I hope so because I was about to reply, something like "Put a foot in it". We can pick on politicians like no normal newspaper could. We can attack government actions like no newspaper ever would. We can expose conspiracies like no newspaper even should.
The main thing I realized about CM is that as a privedged one, one who can post at will, it is like I have a little slice of the power of the press at my fingertips. Of the 1,431 guests that were here when I started typing this, how many do you think are the same ones now ? And this is worldwide to boot ! This site probably gets 11 kagillion hits a month, and I hope those pennies add up to a good sum to help keep it free of cost.
Freedom is oft misinterpreted, because first of all, none of us have ever been free. As a minor example, you can be free of your electric bill but you will also be free of the bounds of electricity. I sometimes read the American Free Press. People come over and some ask "How come it says free and has a price on it of $1.50 ?". In that sense it means free of manipulation by advertisers and conglomerates who dominate most of the rest of the media. The AFP can be interesting at times, especially when you finally hear something on the news or read it in a local paper and you already know about it because AFP got the scoop. They also have a health section, in which I have seen them print two almost diametrically opposed articles on the same page. They have also published letters to the editor that were were critical of their own publication.
So this is kind of like that. I have corresponded with ex-members and they seem to share one opinion, that the moderators were unfair, or that they were biased. I have seen no evidence of that.
What I have seen is people running this site who are image concious, and want to let the world know that kinksters are regular people too, to get it through peoples' thick skulls, if you don't want us to do it to you, just don't ask us to. Like homosexuals coming out of the closet. They are on TV now (television that is). I am subjected to TV at times, the Tyra show, you know how hard that can be on a Man, but I am getting paid by the hour. Nonetheless, they explore all that, now how's about we become a large enough contingent to possibly go on TV.
It has been done, but to my knowledge only on Jerry Springer, and I only watched that because my sister told me that she swears one of her ex beaus was on the show. This guy was the spittin' image of him as well, wearing a collar led around by a Domme. Other, tertiary information gleaned matched as well BTW, as well as his first name.
Kinksters don't need recruits, but we do need acceptance, that if caught, it doesn't have to result in a suicide or a slunking away from life.
I have long said that with a certain history of actions, intent can be determined. I believe that this site exists to combat the general negativity and stigma placed on the kink community by the "normal" people. Yes the normal people who will cheat you out of money and then go to church and put it in the collection plate.
Use this little glimmer of this awesome power wisely folks. People will be reading what you post from Finland to bumfukt Egypt somewhere. (nothing against Egpt, just a figure of speech, can explain upon request)
And I still hate the word 'awesome' , yet have used it four times this year.
Of course a discussion of why the yuan is pegged to the dollar and it's impact on world economics will degenerate into an argument about the cost of 1,000 tsetse flies in northern Tibet, but that's the way it is.
I have ranted, but right now I felt like unranting.
T
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