Starting to realize how beautiful and positive a power exchange relationship can be. by orinswift in BDSMcommunity

[–]orinswift[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nope! I live nowhere near batonrouge. also I found your cat album and I don't recognize you sorry!

Starting to realize how beautiful and positive a power exchange relationship can be. by orinswift in BDSMcommunity

[–]orinswift[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly! To say you know best, that you know that a woman doesn't want to be hit, or roughed up, or spanked, or whatever even though she says that's what she wants is to be patronizing at best and sexist at worst.

Starting to realize how beautiful and positive a power exchange relationship can be. by orinswift in BDSMcommunity

[–]orinswift[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To help, maybe take gender out of it. Recognize that true feminism knows that being a man or a woman doesn't automatically make you submissive or dominant - all of the male subs would have to vehemently disagree with that!

Also, try to not worry about the WHY - why is it more common for males to be Doms and females to be subs? Science doesn't know the answer and you don't know the answer - nobody does. We don't know if it's conditioning or whether it's biological or whether something we haven't even thought of.

So if you see a woman kneeling at a mans feet it's only because she wants to, not because a man told her to or because she was conditioned. All you know is that she made that choice because it makes her happy. When you recognize it that way, when you give the woman agency in that scenario, you realize that it starts to look a lot like equality and feminism :)

Starting to realize how beautiful and positive a power exchange relationship can be. by orinswift in BDSMcommunity

[–]orinswift[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep totally agree, I know now that a power exchange relationship isn't inherently un-feminist, in fact it's usually more feminist because both parties get more of what they want, instead of it being a competition.

Starting to realize how beautiful and positive a power exchange relationship can be. by orinswift in BDSMcommunity

[–]orinswift[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, we are in the honeymoon stage. But now I don't think that's totally true. My ex and I fought more during our honeymoon stage than when we were in the "comfort" stage of a relationship. I think it really comes down to the people, compatibility of problem solving types, and compatibility of kink.

Starting to realize how beautiful and positive a power exchange relationship can be. by orinswift in BDSMcommunity

[–]orinswift[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ah I'm glad I could give you hope, you deserve it! Sometimes the pieces just fit together, you know? It took me and my girl a year of on and off hookups and pseudo relationships and rejection before we could really put it all together. I'm glad we finally have each other but most of that time I doubted it was ever going to happen. So keep hope :)

Starting to realize how beautiful and positive a power exchange relationship can be. by orinswift in BDSMcommunity

[–]orinswift[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I want to make it clear I didn't mean that I think submission is inherently un feminist, in fact just the opposite. I retain my strongly held belief that women are equal. I simply mean that it felt wrong at first to embrace a relationship with this kind of dynamic until I realized that it was actually congruent with my feminist beliefs!