► SirsBabyDoll wrote:
There are many people who view Brats as not true submissives. I wondered where he stood because the tone of his message felt (my feelings and they are valid as anybody else's) dismissive of the idea of even learning about brats (not by playing but by researching and talking to brats about how they view their kink).
I pointed out his profile statement to find out his view on the submissiveness of brats because if he does NOT consider them to be submissives, then his blanket statement about protecting "all" is false.
I am in agreement that everyone has a choice to play with whomever they choose....
But where does knowledge come in? Or is everyone running on assumptions:
Sadists just like to abuse women, that's why they "get off" on hitting them.
Masochists are all mentally unstable and allow anybody to hit them.
Slaves are all co-dependent and uneducated.
Daddy Doms are pedophiles who force adults to help them live out their sick desires for kids.
Brats top from the bottom and are not submissives.
*None* of the statements are true, but that's what people ASSUME when they first encounter those kinks.....UNTIL research is done to expand knowledge.
Once more, I'll remind you that you're insisting that all dominants take the time out of their lives to *educate* themselves as to your particular flavor of kink regardless whether they have any interest in it or not. I've mentioned, before but will repeat myself, that this very circular argument is why the majority of people find brats so exhausting and demanding - and often not worth the added effort.
You repeatedly claim that "others" are judging you and your fellow brats and insinuating that you and your compatriots are somehow "less than" they are. I've seen no one suggest that. Not in this thread at least. What I've tried to do, and have seen many others try as well, is to lay it on the line that you sometimes just have to accept that not everyone is going to want to RESEARCH what makes you tick.
All relationships - kinky and vanilla - are time *and* effort intensive and some people simply choose to not pour another layer of sticky into their recipe. Not everyone has a fetish for analyzing their own behaviors or those of someone else. Not everyone wants to peel an onion when they can settle for pickles and mustard on their burger instead. I wouldn't presume to persuade someone to try a food dish they don't care for ... and so on and so on. Not everything someone else doesn't have an interest in translates as them belittling someone else. *exhausted once more*