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5 years ago •
Nov 23, 2018
For a Sapiosexual Submissive Female I Have Yet to Meet
5 years ago •
Nov 23, 2018
OpenDom(dom male) • Nov 23, 2018
I wrote this yesterday to pass the time on a long flight. A legitimate opinion? Pretentious name-dropping? Incomprehensible heteronormative imperialist ranting? Any opinions/comments/praise/insults from any readers would be appreciated...
------------------------------------------- While I sit on a plane crossing twelve time zones, I consider the many explicit and implicit definitions of dominant I have encountered. My mind drifts through a garden of dogma, Horace, and the tragedy of contemporary education. Every time someone worships the ideological purity of the “real” dominant and excoriates the “fake” one, I find myself at a loss. But then, I find myself at a loss any time I try to gain clarity on people’s attempts to use rhetoric to show how their own tastes or religious beliefs are truer than those of others. When Horace says "de Gustibus non est disputandum", he doesn’t merely nail the answer to Wittenberg’s doors: he blows the doors off. Why can’t people see it? Why has monotheism been palatable in the West for the past two millennia? How did the tolerance of polytheism get killed by ascetic halfwits from the East and West Banks of the Jordan? Worse, how have we allowed those bearded cretins to take over the world? Is it because the early generations had, along with zeal, better swords? Why does the hegemony of simplistic thinking continue in the third millennium? Is it because Abraham’s spawn runs the world? Is it because the world has more recently fed on the implicit ethnocentrism of cultural relativism instead of on the breast milk of Homer, Heraclitus, Euripides, Sappho, and on bone-marrow nourishment of Lucretius, Cicero, Horace and Virgil? Petrarch, Montaigne and Bernini knew the gifts of the classical world like they knew the backs of their hardworn hands. Even de Sade and Krafft-Ebing did. Today, not so much. I tend to think the answer to both questions is “yes”, and I end up hoist on my own petard, with thinking as rigid of those I find so pathetic and contemptible. When I put on a Medievalist’s reading glasses, defining real and fake dominants comes through allegory: the “real dominant” dines with Hector at Percival’s right hand, and the “fake dominant” dines with Achilles at Mordred’s left. From my perspective as a wannabe animist in the beginning of the third millennium, allegory based in Arthurian romance may be resonant, and it may be beautiful, but it is no more comforting than writing “the sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.” Thanks to uncritical thinking and toleration of logical fallacies, the prejudiced, dogmatic and inexpressive definitions will never disappear, no matter how I try to comfort myself with “whatever gets you through the night” and “feed love where you find it.” If you accept the notion of multiple gender identities, why do you attempt to distinguish between the real dominant and the fake one? |
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