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[pantryslut]

Always nice to be reminded that I'm not the only one:

"Domism: Role Essentialism and Sexism Intersectionality in the BDSM Scene"

http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/domism-role-essentialism-and-sexism-intersectionality-in-the-bdsm-scene/

Comments

[debbieann.livejournal.com]

ooooh, great links this one and the one on women as prey. thanks! might have to post a link to this one.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I would say I could write a book on this shit, but everything I have learned boils down to one sentence: "Bullies should not be dom(me)s, and dom(me)s should not be bullies."

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Oh, fascinating.

I note with some startlement that I have always been approached out of the blue (not in any formal scenes) by men who want to be dominated by a Dragon Lady (or so I presume, as they're asking without having engaged in any prior conversation, just in their visual assessment of me). I've never been approached that way with an expectation of Oriental Flower submissiveness. I now wonder what flagging I'm doing without being aware of it. (And I suspect that most non-East-Asian women do not have this experience.)

[warriorofworry.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this link! I'm looking forward to sitting down and reading it all the way through.
I will note that our local group had more male bottoms than I expected when I went a couple of times last year.