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CuriousLord -> RE: Master Sir Lord Daddy, Or What's In A Name? (4/10/2007 10:33:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: OedipusRexIt
If your screen name starts with Master, Sir, Lord, Daddy, or (what the heck) God... you may take this personally if you choose. Otherwise, consider lightening up.
Do others notice the abundance of such names in Dom profiles, and their female equivalent? When picking a screen name, I studiously avoided doing that. Pick a reason (really, pick a reason, any reason...) but one good one would be simply making yourself more easily noticeable. Think of that old saw about names in a phonebook...
I haven't noticed a similar phenomanon in submissive profile names, but it could be I've missed that pattern.
"A rose by any other name... " etc., and you can call yourself whatever you like, but I can't resist wondering whether it provides the connotation that those soi-disant Master Sir Lord Daddies are reaching for .... ?
*immediately edited for poor spelling. Good thing my name isn't SuperSpeller...
Let's begin by saying I hope you realize you're coming from quite an egotistical position, denouncing a predominant archetypal alias system without so much as a legitimate leading inquiry. You're well aware this is inflammatory; it is unbecoming of an individual in this lifestyle.
This said..
You must be aware of the importance of labeling in this lifestyle. Typically, in real life, one must be denoted as either male or female if the individual carries a unisex name. In this life? Dominance/submission, sadism/masochism, gender, and age are all important. An alias that answers some of these in its saying puts those using it ahead of the game in being informed. While conveying subtleties of one's nature in an alias can be "clever" at first glance, this is only a false impression after the individual has failed to take into account priorities.
I feel it's important to, since I'm afraid you're misunderstanding this, the Greeks were not great intellectuals, nor was the myth you're referring to somehow more intelligently designed than Star Wars. It was a mass-appeal story told by traveling entertainers. It has about the same depth as a drama on the Lifetime channel.
Not to seem.. overly mean.. you just strike me as pseudo-intellectual.
This isn't to say your point, while taken to an offensive extreme, is baseless in all circumstance. I often wonder about the Domme's who call themselves "Goddess", wondering what supernatural powers or ultra-human abilities they would claim to have. Still, this is a community of respect, and, should I care to make a post about it someday, I'd ask their reasons instead of insulting them for words I've shoved down their mouths.
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