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JonnieBoy -> RE: Normalizing BDSM (5/11/2009 9:04:07 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SlaveBlutarsky
This is pretty much the funniest thing I've read on here in awhile. You realize you're combating a huge sweeping generalization (which happens to be true and appropriate to the discussion)
Huge sweeping generalisations which happen to be true are as rare as rocking horse shit.
Exposure to homosexuality in the media varies in different regions and can be very real,but perhaps the real obsticle the media creates in terms of affecting peoples views is the false and over represented images of "normal" (there's no such thing as normal when it comes to people) life. I suggest that contributes to intolerance (bred from the subsequent ignorance it perpetuates) more than anything.
As for the issue of BDSM, in this context,I think that (what those in the US insist on calling "vanilla") the self closeting that is vastly prevalent is,to the uneducated,an indication that there is something to hide.Whilst there may be a minority with professional or legal constraints affecting them and are thereby excused while we forge ahead (I spent a while a good many years age contemplating this for me) most of the people I've met who are into kink and open about it are not just "tolerated" (who the fuck wants to be "tolerated"?), they are accepted for themselves.
No one I know or deal with do I hide myself from and nor will I ever.Most of my life is very similar to my neighbours (hell,we all have bills to pay!) and friends. I have male and female friends of various ethnic backgrounds and sexual persuasions but when dealing with "normal" (see above) folk and including a few "authority" figures these days,I find mainly curiosity and humour,as opposed to lack of tolerance if the "kinky"? question comes up
BDSM will not,in my opinion,become normalised whilst such a large percentage of kinksters remain in the closet wishing things were different.
Pirate
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