Comments on: Practice Before Preach

By: A Place To Draw Blood Laughing › 31. Presentation Report

A Place To Draw Blood Laughing › 31. Presentation Report — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:38:46 +0000

[...] here sometimes makes that worse instead of better. And that I’m having to fight the battles I thought I’d finished long ago, all over [...]

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:24:00 +0000

Richard -

I don't know how the BDSM community really measures up to many of the others.

It would be nice, and it's probably never really going to happen, but hey, I feel like I need to yell and scream my naive idealism while I've still got it kicking around :).

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:40:00 +0000

Um, yeah, it would be groovy if minorities and subcultures felt some common bond against the majority. But that has almost never happened.

How many minorities accepted gay men and women when the first fought openly against oppression?

And when I was totally queer-identified how many mocked me because I like femme and not masculine men?

Overall my dim impression is that the BDSM subcultures are more embracing than many. But I wouldn't wager a nickel on that.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:33:00 +0000

Sierra -

I thought about this comment on the train today, and realized that it can be read two ways, and I’m pretty sure I read it not the way you were intended. Because you’re right – people don’t feel the need to protect themselves until they’re genuinely threatened. Fascinating. So true!

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:02:00 +0000

Sierra -

Hmm. Personally I try to split my blog posts up and not rant all the time, because it doesn’t provide an appropriate picture of how I think. Ugh, think what a depressing place the blogosphere would be if we all did nothing but rant all day.

Do you have a blog of your own? You could write the rant there – I’d like to read it.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:59:00 +0000

Engrailed -

Wow, acronyms. I’ve never encountered that, but with so many letters, it just has to not make sense eventually. Heheh.

By: Sierra

Sierra — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:09:00 +0000

What’s the saying, if they didn’t have anything to bitch about they wouldn’t have anything to say.
I’ll leave my comment at that because after reading your post I’m feeling a definite political rant about to explode from my fingers.

By: engrailed

engrailed — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:54:00 +0000

Thought provoking post! Before blogs, there were newsgroups, e.g. ssbb. On ssbb, pretty much every post included the disclaimer, YKIOKIJNMK. Your kink is ok, it’s just not my kink. That’s how overused and knee-jerk the sentiment had become. Since then I think there has been a little backlash. What I mean is, some folks want to be able to say, Hey, YKINOK! Not that I’m one of them …