Thermos and Bobblehat. (52)

I mean... there it is, all big and scary and all monolithic. And here BDSMers (or people as I called them elsewhere) are a minority who like to do things that aren't what other people (who I saw laughably described as “norms” or “mundanes”) like to do.

Obviously it was never mentioned that those norms and mundanes might also be the same norms and mundane who hang-glide over active volcanoes for fun, or (as I did a couple of years ago) chase tornados across Oklahoma, or go spear fishing amongst sharks, or drive motorbikes, swallow swords etc etc. The idea that someone is a “mundane” because they can't have a four foot dildo shoved up their arse without their eyes watering, does, in one sentence uncover the very issue I have with the idea of BDSM Activism as a concept.

If people who practice BDSM (from here on called PWPBDSM) go around with such a risible attitude about people who don't share their idea of sex, then I think they deserve all they get quite frankly. They are just as narrow minded and blinkered as the people they despise. For the very same reasons.

I don't believe PWPBDSM are discriminated against any more than anyone who does something outside societal norms. I think PWPBDSM who feel they are discriminated against *more* need to take a real hard reality check and get over their bad selves (ahem).

What's needed is an unfragmented movement to fight against all discrimination (even discrimination against Mundanes), not a ghetto-ised monoculture only interested in fighting for their own patch.

In any case. I'd hate for PWPBDSM to become acceptable and normalised into society.

Half the fun of what I do is revelling in the naughtiness of breaking taboos. Take that away and PWPBDSM all become as normal and mundane as Train Spotters, and just as funny and weird (ahem).

Thermos and bobblehat anyone?

Just remember, when you think you're free, that crack inside your fucking heart is me.

Edited Thu 9 Jun 11, 7:19 PM by x_Pan_x

Wasn't he the one who kept falling over and shouting "Mr Grimsdale" a lot?

Holmes: Meretricious
Lestrade: And a happy new year

Dunno. Check with the Lee Evans appreciation society. He'd know.

Just remember, when you think you're free, that crack inside your fucking heart is me.

You only have to look at some of the PWPBDSM who post in the politics forum to see ample evidence of that.

Just remember, when you think you're free, that crack inside your fucking heart is me.

Discrimination is what stops us shagging some 30 stone woman with a beard who is so totally not our type that we shudder to think of her.

What is unacceptable, surely, is prejudice which is not modified in the face of evidence.

Sometimes, terminological exactitude has its place.

Holmes: Meretricious
Lestrade: And a happy new year

*rests his case*

Just remember, when you think you're free, that crack inside your fucking heart is me.

Surely you have to make your case first.

Argumentum ad lapidem does not cogent, persuasive logic make.

If I like something, I'll go with it; if I don't like something, I won't. I'll wager you're exactly the same. Yet you dare call me discriminatory as if it's a bad thing?

I'll raise you a hypocrite.

Holmes: Meretricious
Lestrade: And a happy new year

Edited 9 Jun 11, 8:32 PM by The_Majickian

I thought he was the bloke in 'Cheers' who everyone was always pleased to see.

"Me and Kevin, we're just not the same"
Women are from Reigate, men are from Reigate. Not all of them of course, that would be silly, some are from Pimlico, or Cleethorpes, or that little village in Derbyshire who's name eludes me, or Bridlington, or Weston Super Mare, or Clac....

Okay, we get it. You're cool and edgy.

Hey everyone! Come and look how cool this guy is!

I'm impressed. Truly. You irrepressible rapscallion you.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

So edgy he may end up slitting his own throat?

Holmes: Meretricious
Lestrade: And a happy new year